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Medicaid’s Rehabilitation Services Option: Overview and Current Policy Issues
In 2007, the President reintroduced a plan to place new restrictions on the types of services allowable under the Medicaid rehabilitation services option. Currently, 47 states plus the District of Columbia provide at least some type of services under the option. A new brief provides an overview and explores current policy issues.

Diane Rowland Testifies Before Congress About Medicaid’s Role for People With Disabilities
Diane Rowland, executive vice president of the Foundation, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health about Medicaid’s development as a vital source of coverage for people with disabilities and its current role providing coverage and access to health services and supports for this population.

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Headed for a Crunch: An Update on Medicaid Spending, Coverage and Policy Heading into an Economic Downturn -- September 2008

This eighth annual 50-state survey on Medicaid and state budget actions finds enrollment began to rise in fiscal year 2008 with states expecting even larger increases for fiscal year 2009. With the increased enrollment, Medicaid spending is also rising more rapidly than in the recent past.

Kaiser Fast Facts -- May 2008
“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services in Medicaid: A Review of Four State Programs -- March 2008

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based on interviews with program administrators from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

Consumer Direction of Personal Assistance Services Programs in Medicaid: Insights from Enrollees in Four States -- March 2008

This report examines consumer direction of personal assistance services in four states' Medicaid programs. Its findings are based focus group interviews with CD-PAS enrollees from California, Colorado, New York and Virginia.

Medicaid’s Role for People With Disabilities -- January 2008

Diane Rowland testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health about Medicaid’s development as a vital source of coverage for people with disabilities and its current role providing coverage and access to health services and supports for this population.

Long-Term Service and Supports: The Future Role and Challenges for Medicaid -- October 2007

This report examines the structure and impact of Medicaid’s role in long-term care. Based on a roundtable discussion of policy makers and experts and drawn from a body of health services research, the report highlights policy challenges facing the Medicaid program today and identifies issues in providing long-term care going forward.

Learning From History: Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness As Precursor to Long-Term Care Reform -- August 2007

This report examines what policy lessons can be learned from the deinstitutionalization of people with mental illnesses and applied to the potential long-term care reform for the elderly or those with significant disabilities.

Medicaid’s Rehabilitation Services Option: Overview and Current Policy Issues -- August 2007

This policy brief provides an overview of the Medicaid rehabilitation services option and explores current policy issues.

Medicaid Benefits: Online Database -- August 2007
This updated interactive database provides information on health services provided by each state's Medicaid program. Search the database by state or benefit and compare benefit packages from 2003, 2004 and 2006.

KaiserEDU.org Issue Module: Financing Long-Term Care -- March 2007
This KaiserEDU.org issue module discusses long-term care costs, Medicaid and Medicare's role in paying for care and role of private long-term care insurance.

“Kaiser Fast Facts” features “QuickTakes” and “Kaiser Slides” – two tools that provide direct access to facts, data and slides about the nation's health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. “QuickTakes” presents an inventory of facts-at-a-glance and "Kaiser Slides" allows Web visitors to freely view, download and print graphics and tables of health policy statistics and trends.

This policy brief provides an overview of the Medicaid rehabilitation services option and explores current policy issues.

This updated interactive database provides information on health services provided by each state's Medicaid program. Search the database by state or benefit and compare benefit packages from 2003, 2004 and 2006.

This KaiserEDU.org issue module discusses long-term care costs, Medicaid and Medicare's role in paying for care and role of private long-term care insurance.

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Medicaid/SCHIP: People with Disabilities
Medicaid is the single largest source of health care financing, public or private, for people with disabilities – covering over 8 million people under age 65 with disabilities. Medicaid covers individuals with a wide range of disabilities, including physical impairments and limitations like blindness and spinal cord injury; severe mental illness, and other disabling conditions, such as cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, Downs Syndrome, mental retardation, muscular dystrophy, autism, spina bifida, and HIV/AIDS. Medicaid covers services ranging from physician care and prescription drugs to behavioral health and long-term care support services that are often critical to enabling individuals with disabilities to work or live in the community.