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...

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.

This issue brief presents the results of the first study conducted using data from Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) data and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to assess the use of home- and community-based services by the presence and level of functional limitations, as measured by...

This issue brief presents the results of the first study conducted using data from Medicaid Analytic eXtract (MAX) data and the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey to assess the use of home- and community-based services by the presence and level of functional limitations, as measured by...

In 2007, the federal government funded programs in 30 states and the District of Columbia under the Money Follows the Person demonstration to support the transition of Medicaid beneficiaries in long-term institutional care to home and community-based settings. This report describes variation in...

This report summarizes the major findings of an evaluation of the Non-Elderly Disabled Category 2 (NED-2) Housing Choice Voucher Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Planning and Evaluation. The study objectives were (1) to...