HIP includes a Personal Wellness Responsibility Account, a basic commercial benefits package and coverage for preventive services. Physician services, prescriptions and disease management are some of the services covered by HIP.EBSCO_AspState Health Watch...
Policy makers hope the waiver reduces the number of emergency department visits and inpatient hospitalizations as well as allcause deaths close to the release date.4 “We’re talking about literally tens of millions of [individuals] potentially impacted by this policy, so any efforts to better ...
IllinoisIn Illinois, the state Medicaid program offers aHCBS Waiver. Under that waiver, participants can receive services at home. However, the range of approved services is more limited than in many states. There are also two managed Medicaid programs depending in which area of the state one ...
In addition, we are working on the following short term solutions to mitigate procedural denials and improve the overall renewal process. In February, we are implementing a waiver to permit the designation of an authorized representative for the purposes of signing an application or renewal form v...
Nationally, 27 states have received federal approval to implement Medicaid Section 1115 waiver programs to expand family planning services to low-income, uninsured women and in some states, men. Arkansas was one of the first to implement a Medicaid family planning waiver program, known as the Wome...
Waiver Description KanCare is another name for the state of Kansas’ Medicaid program. In 2013, Medicaid in Kansas switched to a managed care program. Managed care integrated nearly all of the states’ Medicaid programs, including those providing Home and Community Based Services, such as the Fra...
This study investigated families’ experience of choice within a participant-directed Medicaid waiver program for young children with autism. Fourteen
Specifically for ASD, the Maryland waiver program (henceforth referred to as the “Maryland waiver”) is the largest of its kind and includes a set of services identified to meet the needs of a child with ASD and the family unit: (a) service coordination through the local school system; (...
Medicaid's institutional bias; Growth in HCB Waiver Programs; Shifts in state strategies in employing Medicaid dollars.SmithGaryProutyRobertMental RetardationSmith, G. A., Prouty, R., & Lakin, C. K. (1996). The HCB Waiver Program: The fading of Medicaid's "Institutional Bias." Mental ...
The key role that physicians play in appropriately maintaining patients in their homes and other community-based living arrangements and the Medicaid program that has been a leader in funding the development of such alternatives are discussed.