Publications: Long-Term Services and Supports
Evaluating Managed Long-Term Care Proposals in Your State: Key Areas for Advocacy provides questions related to consumer input, program structure, plan selection, consumer protections, plan evaluation, and state readiness that advocates should consider as states design their managed long-term care programs. 19 pp. (June 2012)
Managed Long-Term Care in Medicaid: What Advocates Need to Know explains potential benefits and drawbacks of managed long-term care in Medicaid. It also describes alternative options for restructuring long-term care and offers advice for managing expectations for savings. 11 pp. (June 2012)
Cutting Medicaid: Harming Seniors and People with Disabilities Who Need Long-Term Care assesses the human impact of proposed Medicaid cuts on those who need long-term care, as well as their families. It provides state-specific numbers on how many people would be affected by cuts, as well as on how the cuts would hurt families and state workers. 17 pp. | State Reports 4 pp. (May 2011)
House Republicans Propose to Slash Funding for Medicaid, Medicare, and Other Health Coverage Programs takes a closer look at how the recent budget proposal would harm seniors, children, and state economies, including state-specific numbers. 19 pp. (April 2011)
What the House Budget Resolution Means for America's Seniors and People with Disabilities is A Q & A on the possible consequences of the House budget resolution for two groups that would be disproportionately affected by Medicare and Medicaid cuts. 4 pp. (April 2011)
The Health Care Law: Good News for Caregivers discusses how the health care law will help build the long-term care workforce, encourage states to expand home- and community-based services in Medicaid, improve resources for caregivers, and expand protections for people in long-term care facilities. 7 pp. | The Affordable Care Act: Provisions that Will Help Caregivers 6 pp. (March 2011)
Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities: Why It Is Important to Preserve the Maintenance of Effort Requirement in the Affordable Care Act discusses how stripping the maintenance of effort requirement from the ACA will have negative consequences for the many people who depend on Medicaid by allowing states to change eligibility requirements. 4 pp. (February 2011) | State Reports
In Perspective: Better Safety and Quality for Seniors and People with Disabilities discusses the Elder Justice Act, the Patient Safety and Abuse Prevention Act, and the Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act, three sections in the Affordable Care Act that will bring historic improvements to the quality and safety of long-term care and result in the most comprehensive federal effort ever to fight elder abuse. 3 pp. (October 2010)
In Perspective: Help for Those Who Need Long-Term Care describes how the Affordable Care Act will help more people stay in their homes or the community (rather than an institution) and why this help is needed. 3 pp. (September 2010)
Health Reform Provisions that Expand Access to Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) briefly outlines key provisions, including the State Balancing Incentive Payments Program, the Community First Choice Option, and Changes to the Medicaid 1915(i) option. 2 pp. (September 2010)
Five Good Reasons Why States Shouldn't Cut Home- and Community-Based Services in Medicaid outlines why cutting home- and community-based services in Medicaid is a bad idea for states that are facing budget shortfalls. | Sources 6 pp. (July 2010)
Health Reform: New Opportunities for States to Invest in Home- and Community-Based Services is a series of state-specific fact sheets that explore the new options for states to expand home- and community-based services through the health reform law and the reasons why expanding this type of services is a good idea. 7 pp. (Summer 2010)
Long-Term Services: Provisions in the New Health Reform Law outlines key provisions that expand coverage, including the Community First Choice Option, the State Balancing Incentives Payment Program, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Program, and extending the Money Follows the Person Medicaid demonstration project. 10 pp. (May 2010)
Helping People with Long-Term Health Care Needs: Improving Access to Home- and Community-Based Services in Medicaid discusses how health reform gives states incentives to strengthen home- and community-based services in Medicaid. 4 pp. (Updated April 2010)
Helping People with Long-Term Health Care Needs: An Insurance Program to Help People Afford Long-Term Services and Supports discusses the Community Living Assistance for Services and Supports (CLASS) program, a new, voluntary, public long-term services insurance program that is part of health reform. 2 pp. (Updated April 2010)
A Summary of the New Health Reform Law describes the major changes in health coverage that health reform will bring, including Medicaid and CHIP coverage, the affordability provisions, the exchanges, individual and employer responsibility requirements, improvements in private market coverage, and changes to Medicare and long-term services. 21 pp. (April 2010)
