Over the next couple days we’re taking a hard look at a new report just released by the Center for Long-Term Care Reform, “Doing LTC Right”. You can read the full report here. In part one you’ll find:
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Why Does Medicaid Pay for Most Long-Term Care?
- How Medicaid LTC Eligibility Actually Works
It’s a very informative and good read. We’ll dig into it starting tomorrow, but here’s a sample from the executive summary.
- Caring for the frail and infirm elderly is difficult and expensive. Today, America’s long-term care delivery and financing system is a mess.
- The state (Rhode Island) is implementing a new system of clinical eligibility that makes more home care and less institutional care available to Medicaid recipients.
- It (the report) describes how Medicaid became the dominant payer for long-term care not only for the poor, but for most of the middle class, and many of the affluent.
We’d love to hear people chime in on this as we read thru the report.
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