The national Medicaid Buy-In program promotes employment and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities by allowing states to amend their Medicaid programs. As of December 2002, 25 states had implemented this program. Three themes emerge in this early picture of 21 states: (1)...

This study assessed the effectiveness of a discharge planning program implemented in three Oklahoma state prisons to assist inmates with serious mental illness to enroll in Medicaid on the day of release or soon thereafter. The program had significant positive effects. On the day of release, 25...

Findings from two studies suggest that residential youth treatment facilities could improve family involvement in governance and outcome monitoring. Using data from Mathematica's survey, the studies assessed whether and how patients and their families participate in facilities' governance, as...

This study examined Medicaid beneficiaries using mental health or substance abuse services in fee-for-service plans in 13 states in 2003, concluding that they entered general hospitals and visited emergency rooms far more frequently than other beneficiaries.

The Medicaid Buy-In option promotes employment and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities. This study used information from federal Medicaid and Medicare databases to examine policy questions about enrollment in the Medicaid Buy-In program in five states and participants'...

This article examines the Medicaid Buy-In program, so named because workers with disabilities “buy into†Medicaid coverage with monthly premiums. In 2006, over 97,000 individuals were enrolled in 32 state Buy-In programs. States have taken different pathways toward the program’s...

This Evaluation Highlight discusses the early accomplishments, challenges, and lessons learned from the following four states pursuing practice-level quality measurement: Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. It describes the states’ efforts to select meaningful...

This report describes an evaluation of Oklahoma’s efforts to develop and implement a model program to ensure that eligible individuals with mental illness were enrolled in Medicaid at discharge from state prisons and institutions for mental diseases.

Promoting employment for people with disabilities is an important policy objective for the nation. This third brief in a series on the Medicaid Buy-In program, a key component of the federal effort to help people with disabilities return to work without losing health insurance coverage, examines...