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Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 2.2. Establishing Eligibility

2.2.1. Categorical Eligibility for Medicaid For decades, people have qualified for Medicaid benefits based on categorical eligibility. The two most common eligibility categories have been as follows: The Covered Families and Children population--parents, children, and pregnant women whose household income is at or below the income eli

1.2. The Three Pieces of the Puzzle: Chronic

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. 1.2. The Three Pieces of the Puzzle: Chronic Homelessness, Permanent Supportive Housing, and Medicaid

Before turning to the details of innovations in the use of Medicaid for PSH tenants and people continuing to experience chronic homelessness, we briefly describe the three pieces of the puzzle that comprise the focus of our work--chronic homelessness, PSH, and Medicaid. The remainder of the report explores different aspects of Medicaid for people

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. Executive Summary

Permanent supportive housing (PSH) offers subsidized housing for formerly homeless people with disabilities and chronic health conditions. It provides flexible and individualized support services that are offered to tenants, who can participate on a voluntary basis. PSH services focus on promoting long-term housing stability, recovery, and improve

Medicaid and Permanent Supportive Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals: Emerging Practices From the Field. Acronyms

The following acronyms are mentioned in this report.

A Primer on Using Medicaid for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Tenants in Permanent Supportive Housing. 4.2. Federally Qualified Health Centers

Health Centers, which include HCH programs, generally receive federal grants from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to provide comprehensive primary care and preventive services to low-income people in underserved communities. These Health Centers generally also receive Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements as FQHCs. 41

A Primer on Using Medicaid for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Tenants in Permanent Supportive Housing. 2.2. Enrollment Strategies

Establishing expanded eligibility for Medicaid is only the first step in expanding the population of Medicaid beneficiaries. Many of those newly eligible for Medicaid on the basis of income alone will not know about the opportunity to enroll and will not have experience with health insurance. Early-expansion states and providers working with indiv

A Primer on Using Medicaid for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness and Tenants in Permanent Supportive Housing. 2.1. Eligibility for Medicaid

Within the framework of federal law, states establish policies regarding Medicaid eligibility. 13 Federal law requires states to cover certain population groups and allows them to cover others. In general, Medicaid covers low-income mothers and children, elderly people, and people with disabilities, although specific income and other requir

Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans by Dementia Status: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Summary and implications

SUMMARY AND IMPLICATIONS

Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans by Dementia Status: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Executive summary

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans by Dementia Status: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study

Studies of the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia in the U.S. estimate that 14% of those over age 70 are affected, and that prevalence increases with age, exceeding one-quarter of persons over age 80. The implications of population aging for increases in older persons with dementia and the impact on families, which will be the

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Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty. Family

Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty. The Focus on Disconnected Low-Income Men

We concentrate on the experiences and challenges of men at the margins between the age of 18 and 44, when most American males are actively engaged in productive activities such as working and building skills, forming and strengthening families, and linking to social institutions. Focusing on this age group, we will not cover childhood, except wher

Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty

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Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Assistance with Activities

Table 3 presents a more detailed hierarchical measure that further describes the distribution of the population by type of assistance received. Overall, 28.7% or about 11 million older adults received help in the last month. The majority of this group received assistance with self-care or mobility-related activities or resided in a nursing home (7

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. References

Alperstein, G., Rappaport, C., & Flanigan, J.M. (1987). Health problems of homeless children in New York City. American Journal of Public Health, 78, 1232-1233. Barrow, S. M. & Laborde, N. D. (2008). Invisible mothers: Parenting by homeless women separated from their children. Gender Issues, 25 , 157–172. Barrow, S. M., & Lawi

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. IV-A. Access to health and mental health care

Access to health insurance is an important step in securing health care for homeless children. Medicaid is the primary source of health insurance for homeless children (National Center on Family Homelessness, 2009 p.43). Medicaid is health insurance for children and adults who meet the financial and general eligibility requirements. Eligibility de

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. Subgroups of homeless children

Huntington, Buckner, and Bassuk (2008) found that homeless children in Worcester, Massachusetts, could be classified into two distinctly different subgroups based on measures of behavior problems, adaptive functioning, and academic achievement, using cluster analysis. Almost half of the sample was doing well across each of these domains, despite t

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. Mental health and behavior

As shown in Table 2 Part C, 11 studies reviewed by Buckner (2005, 2008) examined children’s mental health and behavior. Nine studies used maternal reports of both internalizing symptoms (such as depression and anxiety) and externalizing symptoms (disruptive behavior) on the Child Behavior Checklist. Six studies additionally used child reports of

Homeless Children: Update on Research, Policy, Programs, and Opportunities. Health and development

As shown in Table 2 Part A, five studies of children’s health produced results consistent with the idea of a continuum of risk. Three studies found homeless children worse off than other poor children, who in turn were worse off than the general population, typically on measures of global health. A fourth, which did not include a poor-housed com

Medicare's Bending Cost Curve. July 28, 2014. Table A.1. Service Category Definitions

Service Category Definition Acute Inpatient Payments to acute care hospitals (including critical access hospitals) for inpatient services. With regards to the Medicare data, a limited number of hospitals (i.e., all-inclusive rate and no charge structure hospitals) combine bill under Part A for both technical and professional payments.

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