Long-Term Services & Supports (LTSS)

ASPE awarded a small Professional Services Purchase Order to provide information to be used in the §4104(a). This Primer provides information on federal and state payment methods and sources of payments for Medicaid nursing facilities and Medicare skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care hospitals. [20 PDF pages]

Much of the information behind the charges of critics is anecdotal and based on a relatively small number of individuals concentrated in two companies who may indeed have had legitimate grievances based on their personal experience. Yet, this information alone should not allow one to draw broad conclusions about private industry performance in general.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This paper outlines the specific data elements that long-term care insurance participating in a State Partnership for Long-Term Care must provide to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This system of records is required by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Federal regulations supporting these data requirements were published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2008.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

The purpose of this paper is to provide a snapshot of workforce competencies that have been identified for professionals who work in long-term care settings.

This article estimates the impact of wages, working conditions, and other aspects of job design on overall job satisfaction of certified nursing assistants working in nursing homes.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This report examines the relationship between lifetime earnings and use of Medicaid-financed long-term care services in a nationally representative survey of older adults.

This is Release 1 of the Long Term Care-Nursing Home (LTC-NH) Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S) Functional Profile.