Qualifying for Medicaid Assisted Living Benefits Long-term-care Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps low-income older adults and individuals with disabilities get the care they need. Income and asset limits for membership vary depending on factors such as the kind of care requi...
case mix not captured by the CCW, we included indicators of conditions that qualified patients for potential receipt of several low-value services (eg, a diagnosis of headache in 2009 qualifying beneficiaries for potentially inappropriate head imaging; see the eAppendix in the Supplement for details...
Among patients with a qualifying pneumonia episode, we observed rates of all-cause hospitalization that were 4.6-fold higher in the month of the index pneumonia episode compared to the month -3 baseline. Rates of hospitalization for acute cardiovascular events were also observed to increase over 4...
Qualifying for Medicaid Assisted Living Benefits Long-term-care Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps low-income older adults and individuals with disabilities get the care they need. Income and asset limits for membership vary depending on factors such as the kind of care requi...