This report presents findings from an analysis of baseline data collected as the first step in an impact evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s energy sector project in Tanzania. The evaluation will use rigorous methods to estimate impacts of two project components: (1) an...

This methods report describes Mathematica Policy Research’s approach to creating risk-adjustment models using composite measures to profile care delivered to the home- and community-based service (HCBS) population. The composite measures are adaptations of the Agency for Healthcare...

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...

This brief describes the home and community-based services (HCBS) taxonomy—a uniform classification system composed of 18 categories and more than 60 services—and presents findings on expenditures and users for the 28 states whose MAX data files were approved by June 1, 2013.

The 39;47 (39;47) anticipated problems transitioning drug coverage for dual eligible beneficiaries from Medicaid to Medicare when Medicare Part D was implemented in 2006. This report examines the administrative efficiency of the "Point-of-Sale Facilitated Enrollment" process and state-to-plan...

This guide supplements "Reporting Person-Level Separate CHIP Data on MSIS: A Guide for States." It provides detailed technical advice on how to map separate Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollment and claims data from source systems into the Medicaid Statistical Information System...

There is a growing need for separate Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) program data to examine program transitions, access to services, and quality of care, among other priorities. However, standardized person-level data for S-CHIP programs has never been available at the national...

This report uses aggregate data from annual financial reports and service claims records submitted by grantees to examine the costs and types of community-based services received by participants in the Money Follows the Person program.

This interim report, the first of two reports to Congress, uses qualitative and quantitative data to document the development of the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), particularly focusing on changes states have made since Congress reauthorized CHIP in 2009. The report found that CHIP...