This report uses Medicaid Analytic eXtract data to provide basic information about American Indian and Alaska Native Medicaid enrollees and their use of Medicaid-financed long-term care services. The data suggest that American Indian/Alaska Native Medicaid recipients use long-term care services...

Presents consumer characteristics and describes consumers' experiences, including who received the cash allowance, how they spent it, and their satisfaction with the program. Discusses how program features addressed key policy concerns about consumer direction in the Medicaid program.

The MFP demonstration is the most ambitious program to date aimed at helping Medicaid enrollees transition from long-term care institutions to the community. This report, the first in a new series, assesses the scope of the program—profiling the Medicaid population in long-term...

This is the second annual report on the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration, a federal initiative to help states reduce their reliance on institutional care for people needing long-term care and expand options for elderly people and individuals with disabilities to receive care in the...

The Money Follows the Person program is based on the premise that many Medicaid beneficiaries in institutions would rather live in the community and could do so with adequate support, which would cost less than the institutional care they receive. This report describes the program’s status...