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Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance

Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices

This report focuses on workers' compensation laws and systems as they pertain to domestic service workers, and in particular, PAS workers in 50 states, the District of Columbia, five U.S.
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Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation

Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas

This report describes the design and implementation of Arkansas' model of Cash and Counseling — IndependentChoices — and draws lessons from the state's experience. The report is based primarily on in-person interviews conducted with Arkansas state officials, IndependentChoices' program staff, staff of agencies providing counseling and fiscal
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The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal

The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas

The traditional system of providing Medicaid personal care services (PCS) through home care agencies gives consumers few choices about how and when their care is provided. Because some agencies do not provide care on weekends or outside business hours, consumers may not receive care when they need it. Moreover, worker shortages make it difficult t
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Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of

Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance in Arkansas?

As states seek to improve supportive services, policymakers need to know whether consumer-directed programs deliver quality care — that which satisfies consumers' preferences and does not harm their health. The need for evidence grows daily, as states respond to federal Systems Change grants and other initiatives spurred by the Supreme Court's 1
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Differences Among Services and Policies in High

Differences Among Services and Policies in High Privacy or High Service Assisted Living Facilities

The focus of this short analytic report differs in that it attempts to address, at least in an initial fashion, what types of assisted living facilities, among those in our sample, have characteristics that might be appealing to either consumers or policymakers focusing on consumers= needs. These analyses involved comparing the three groups of fac
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Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts

Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts

This paper examines the current state of nurse practice acts and their implementing regulations to determine the extent to which they permit more consumer direction in home and community based services. This analysis may be helpful to consumers and states that are seeking ways to balance better state policies to support consumer-directed care. [38
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Independent Choices: National Symposium on

Independent Choices: National Symposium on Consumer-Directed Care and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Summary Report

This report presents a summary of major findings and outcomes from the dialogues that took place at "Independent Choices: A National Symposium on Consumer-Direction and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities" held in Washington, DC in June 2001. Rather than attempt to abstract individual panel presentations, this report h
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Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New

Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program

    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program Leslie Foster, Barbara Phillips and Jennifer Schore Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 2005 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2005/NJppp.pdf (107 PDF pages)
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Descriptive Study of Three Disability Competent

Descriptive Study of Three Disability Competent Managed Care Plans for Medicaid Enrollees

Descriptive Study of Three Disability Competent Managed Care Plans for Medicaid Enrollees
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Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation

Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas

Barbara Phillips and Barbara Schneider Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.    
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The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal

The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Effect of Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Carlson Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. May 2004 PDF Version
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Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of

Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance in Arkansas?

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance in Arkansas? Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Lepidus Carlson Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. March 2003 PDF Version
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Differences Among Services and Policies in High

Differences Among Services and Policies in High Privacy or High Service Assisted Living Facilities

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Differences Among Services and Policies in High Privacy or High Service Assisted Living Facilities Charles D. Phillips, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Catherine Hawes, Ph.D.Texas A&M University System Health Science Center Miriam Rose, M.Ed.Myers Research Institute November 2000 PDF Version: http:/
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Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts

Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Consumer Directed Care and Nurse Practice Acts Susan C. Reinhard, RN, PhD Center for State Health Policy, Rutgers University June 2001 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2001/nursprac.pdf (38 PDF pages)
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Autonomy or Abandonment: Changing Perspectives on

Autonomy of Abandonment: Changing Perspectives on Delegation

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Autonomy of Abandonment: Changing Perspectives on Delegation Donna L. Wagner, Ph.D., Pamela Nadash, B.Phil., and Charles Sabatino, J.D. National Council on the Aging July 1997 PDF Version (82 PDF pages)
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Independent Choices: National Symposium on

Independent Choices: National Symposium on Consumer-Directed Care and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities - Summary Report

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services INDEPENDENT CHOICES: National Symposium on Consumer-Directed Care and Self-Determination for the Elderly and Persons with Disabilities Summary Report Marie R. Squillace, Ph.D. Administration on Aging, Office for Community-Based Services, National Family Caregiver Support Program February 15,
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APPENDIX C. TENNESSEE ENROLLMENT TARGETS AND PD-

Participant-Directed Services in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: A Five State Comparison. Appendix C. Tennessee Enrollment Targets and Pd-mltss Performance Measures

Tennessee developed distinct benchmarks, standards, and quality outcomes for PD-MLTSS programs. Quality benchmarks specified in Tennessee's contract 18 require the three MCOs (United HealthCare, Amerigroup, and Volunteer State Health Plan) to increase the number of participant-directing members each year over the life of the contract. The contr
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APPENDIX B. PARTICIPANT-DIRECTED MANAGED LONG-

Participant-Directed Services in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: A Five State Comparison. Appendix B. Participant-directed Managed Long-term Services and Supports Program Tables

TABLE B1 . State PD-MLTSS Program Overview State Program Name
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APPENDIX A. STAKEHOLDER ORGANIZATIONS BY STATE

Participant-Directed Services in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: A Five State Comparison. Appendix A. Stakeholder Organizations by State

State   State Agency     MCO     FMS  
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APPENDICES

Participant-Directed Services in Managed Long-Term Services and Supports Programs: A Five State Comparison. Appendices

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