Home- & Community-Based Services (HCBS)

Twenty-one states applied and were approved to participate in the Balancing Incentive Program enacted in the 2010 Affordable Care Act which offered enhanced Federal Financial Participation to states that were eligible for the program because their FY 2009 Medicaid spending on home and community-based services (HCBS) was less than 50% of their total Medicaid spending on long-term services and su

The Affordable Care Act included several provisions designed to increase the provision of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) and to improve the infrastructure for provision of those services.

The Balancing Incentive Program is one of several provisions included in the 2009 Affordable Care Act designed to increase the provision of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) and to improve the infrastructure for the provision of HCBS.

Joshua M. Wiener, PhD, Sarita L. Karon, PhD, Mary McGinn-Shapiro, MPP, Brieanne Lyda-McDonald, MS, and Trini Thach, BSRTI International Diane Justice, MA, Scott Holladay, MPA, and Kimm Mooney, BANational Academy for State Health Policy Mary Sowers, BA

This report presents findings from the first three years of the five-year evaluation of Medicaid health homes, a new integrated care model authorized in Social Security Act Section 1945 and created by Section 2703 of the Affordable Care Act. The model is designed to target high-need, high-cost beneficiaries with chronic conditions or serious mental illness.

Janet O'Keeffe, Dr.PH, RN, Christine O'Keeffe, BA, and Madhu Shrestha, BS RTI International Abstract   Adult day services (ADS)--a non-residential service provides outside an individual's home for less than a full day--prov

September 2014   RTI International Abstract The Support and Services at Home (SASH) program in Vermont is a subcomponent of a larger Medicare demonstration--the Multi-payer Advanced Primary Ca

Martha Burt, Carol Wilkins, and Gretchen Locke