For calendar year 2010, 28 states spent almost $23.6 billion on HCBS, with 80 percent of expenditures categorized as round-the-clock, home-based, and day services. Other services, such as case management, or equipment, modifications, and technology were widely used, but are not particularly...

As states make home- and community-based services (HCBS) more accessible, researchers have become more interested in understanding service use and spending, but analyzing HCBS at the national level can be challenging. With the development of the HCBS taxonomy—a uniform classification...

To better understand the population of Medicaid enrollees living in nursing homes or intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICFs/IID), researchers analyzed data from the Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) from 2006 and 2007 to determine the characteristics of...

There is increasing interest in the potential of health information technology (HIT) to improve quality of care, prevent medical errors, and increase administrative efficiencies in the nursing home setting. The purpose of this study was to identify characteristics of nursing homes that were...

This study found that community-dwelling individuals and nursing home residents treated by a geriatrician were less likely to use the emergency department (ED) than individuals treated by other providers. Compared with those with no geriatric care, the predicted probability of ED use in one...

This report describes patterns of Medicaid nursing home utilization for each state and nationally. The authors address the following questions: (1) What are the characteristics of people who use Medicaid nursing home services? (2) How do these people become eligible for Medicaid? (3) How long do...

This study found that community-dwelling individuals and nursing home residents treated by a geriatrician were less likely to use the emergency department (ED) than individuals treated by other providers. Compared with those with no geriatric care, the predicted probability of ED use in one...

We assessed transitions from Medicare-only to Medicare-Medicaid enrollment (MME) in 2009, examining variations in transition rates by age group, in use of long-term care (LTC) services, and across states.

Using Medicaid data from 2003, this article describes the demographics and diagnoses of youth under 22 receiving mental health services in general and psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and other residential treatment settings. The research found that treatment...