This report examines Medicare Savings Program (MSP) enrollment rates before and after four states (Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Oregon) expanded MSP eligibility criteria.
This report examines the extent to which enrollment in Medicare Advantage Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans improves outcomes for partial-benefit dually eligible individuals who become full-benefit dually eligible individuals.
This report examines the share of partial-benefit dually eligible (PBDE) individuals enrolled in Dual Special Needs Plans (D-SNPs), D-SNP enrollment patterns among PBDE individuals across states and individual characteristics, and PBDE individuals who transition to full benefits in 2018 to 2020.
Nationwide study suggests home-based primary care for high-need, high-cost patients might reduce potentially avoidable hospitalizations but does not reduce total hospitalizations or inpatient spending.
This report presents trends in section 1915(c) waiver program participants, service use, and expenditures for waiver program year 2019 and changes from prior years.
This report presents Medicaid long term services and supports (LTSS) expenditures for fiscal year 2020 at the national and state levels by service category, type of LTSS (institutional and home and community-based services [HCBS]), and payment model.
This brief explores the use of Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS) across different home and community-based services (HCBS) and institutional categories during calendar year 2019, nationally and by state.
This report presents Medicaid section 1915(c) waiver program expenditures and participation trends for fiscal years 2017 and 2018.
This report presents Medicaid long term services and supports (LTSS) expenditures for fiscal year 2019.
This report examines the effects of the Independence at Home payment incentive. It also assesses whether home-based primary care affects spending and hospital use for dually eligible patients and describes the association between home-based primary care use and end-of-life expenditures.
The authors measured reductions in nursing home resident well-being, such as depressive symptoms and substantial unplanned weight loss, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This report presents Medicaid section 1915(c) waiver program expenditures and participation trends for fiscal years 2015, 2016, and 2017.
This report presents Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS) expenditures for fiscal years 2017 and 2018.
This report presents findings from a multi-state evaluation examining how managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) beneficiaries compare to those receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) in fee-for-service (FFS) on spending, service use, quality of care, access to care, and beneficiary...
This report details Mathematica’s assessment of the COVID-19 outbreak in Connecticut long-term care facilities, as well as a set of short-term and long-term recommendations to help Connecticut and long-term care facilities prepare for a potential second wave of COVID-19 and prevent future infectious...
This study examined the characteristics of community-admitted Medicare home health care patients to better understand the underlying reasons for their increased numbers and found many important differences between patients based on both their source of admission and length of their home health use.
This seventh annual report from the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person rebalancing demonstration provides information about (1) the program; (2) how it grew and changed since transitions began in 2007; and (3) demonstration outcomes such as cost savings, transition rates, and quality...
This executive summary provides highlights from the 2014 Annual Report from the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration.
This report details the findings to date for the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration.
This is an interim evaluation report for the Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign. The goals of the evaluation were to assess the reduction in inpatient harms and readmissions during the period 2011–2014, and to assess, if possible, the contribution that PfP made to those reductions.
This is an interim evaluation report for the Partnership for Patients (PfP) campaign. The goals of the evaluation were to assess the reduction in inpatient harms and readmissions during the period 2011–2014, and to assess, if possible, the contribution that PfP made to those reductions.
This is the first of two reports describing the development of a measure to assess potentially avoidable hospitalizations due to pressure ulcers among Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries using home- and community-based services (HCBS).
This article examines the completeness of the activities of daily living (ADL) items on admission and discharge assessments and the improvement in ADL performance among short-stay residents in the newly adopted Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0.
Despite a shift from institutional services toward more home and community-based services (HCBS) for older adults who need long-term services and supports (LTSS), the effects of HCBS have yet to be adequately synthesized in the literature.