The Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports in Maryland Chart Book, Volume 2, The Autism Waiver is the second chart book in a series of two that explores service utilization and expenditures for Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports in Maryland. The first chart book in the series explores service utilization and expenditures for Maryland Medicaid’s Living at Home Waiver, Older Adults Waiver, and Medical Day Care Waiver, as well as Maryland State Plan personal care services and Medicaid nursing facility utilization and expenditures.
This chart book provides information about Maryland Medicaid participants who received services through the Autism Waiver in fiscal year (FY) 2008 through FY 2011.
Hilltop Long-Term Services and Supports Policy and Research Director Donna C. Folkemer, MA, gave this presentation at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Fall Forum Pre-Conference Meeting on December 5, 2012, in Washington, DC. Folkemer discussed eight things legislators should know about quality. The pre-conference meeting was attended by legislators and legislative staff from across the country.
Hilltop made several presentations at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that took place November 14-18, 2012, in San Diego. On November 15, Hilltop Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, MA, gave a presentation to discuss the set of evaluation metrics for Maryland’s MFP program that Hilltop built and used to evaluate the program.
Hilltop made several presentations at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that took place November 14-18, 2012, in San Diego. On November 15, Hilltop Policy Analyst Aaron Tripp, MSW, and Cynthia Woodcock, MBA, formerly of Hilltop and now Practice Area Lead, Long-Term Care, Aging, and Disability at IMPAQ International, presented the findings of a study to evaluate the New Jersey Care Partner Suport Pilot Program.
Hilltop made several presentations at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that took place November 14-18, 2012, in San Diego. On November 14, Hilltop presented a symposium session titled Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees: An Examination of New Maryland Enrollees and Pathways to Coverage. The purpose of the session was to discuss the findings of the research Hilltop conducted to examine the experience of Maryland Medicare-Medicaid enrollees before their eligibility for both programs. The research identified and cataloged significant differences between persons who first enroll in Medicaid and then in Medicare and those who first enroll in Medicare and then in Medicaid. In the session, Hilltop researchers shared the results of their analyses and findings from a background paper about pathways to eligibility for both programs. Hilltop Director of Long-Term Services and Supports Policy and Research Donna Folkemer, MA, moderated the session. Cynthia Woodcock, MBA, formerly of Hilltop and now Practice Area Lead, Long-Term Care, Aging, and Disability at IMPAQ International, discussed the literature review that described the various pathways to eligibility, presented examples of programs aimed at delaying functional decline and/or poverty, and reviewed enrollment barriers faced by individuals who need both Medicare and Medicaid coverage. Hilltop Policy Analyst Aaron Tripp, MSW, discussed the study on demographic and programmatic characteristics, which compared and contrasted enrollees in both programs with particular attention to identifying differences among various groups. Hilltop Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, MA, discussed the study on prior Medicare and Medicaid resource use, which examined chronic disease patterns and prior health care expenditures of persons who began to receive coverage in 2008 from both Medicare and Medicaid. Chuck Milligan, JD, MPH, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Deputy Secretary of Health Care Financing, was the discussant for the session.
In FY 2012, Hilltop assisted DHMH in its efforts to learn more about the recipients of services from the Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA). Hilltop Policy Analyst Aaron Tripp, MSW, and Long-Term Services and Supports Policy and Research Director Donna C. Folkemer, MA, gave this presentation on model state supports waivers to the Developmental Disabilities (DD) Stakeholders Group.
In FY 2012, Hilltop assisted DHMH in its efforts to learn more about the recipients of services from the Developmental Disabilities Administration (DDA). Hilltop Policy Analyst Aaron Tripp, MSW, and Long-Term Services and Supports Policy and Research Director Donna C. Folkemer, MA, presented this overview of supports waivers to the Developmental Disabilities (DD) Stakeholders Group.
As part of a two-volume series, this chart book summarizes demographic, service utilization, and expenditure data for state fiscal years 2007 through 2010 on three Maryland Medicaid waiver programs—the Living at Home Waiver, the Medical Day Care Services Waiver, and the Older Adults Waiver—and on nursing facility utilization among Maryland Medicaid recipients. This series, prepared for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is intended to monitor trends in these programs. Hilltop updates the chart books annually.
As part of a two-volume series, this chart book provides information about Maryland Medicaid participants who received services through the Autism Waiver in FY 2007 through FY 2010. This series, prepared for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, is intended to monitor trends in these programs. Hilltop updates the chart books annually.
The New Jersey Care Partner Support Pilot Program (Pilot) was conducted in four counties in New Jersey (Atlantic, Mercer, Monmouth, and Warren Counties) during the four-month period of March 14, 2011, to July 15, 2011. The goal of the program was to improve the knowledge and skills of family caregivers caring for adult family members and friends participating in New Jersey’s Medicaid Global Options home and community-based services waiver (GO Waiver) and the state-only funded Jersey Assistance to Community Caregivers (JACC) program. The Pilot was one component of a larger initiative entitled Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregiving undertaken by the AARP Foundation with a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation. Under a subcontract with the AARP Public Policy Institute, Hilltop assessed the experience with the Pilot.