Policy Research Brief: Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services - The First 20 Years

Part of the Policy Research Brief series.
Author(s)
Charlie Lakin, Bob Prouty
Managing Editor(s)
Charlie Lakin, Vicki D Gaylord

Description

A brief reviewing the implementation of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services "waiver" program during its first 20 years, from Fiscal Year 1982 through Fiscal Year 2002. The review provides a description of the program, its initial purposes, patterns and trends in its use, its relationship to other services, and challenges in the years ahead.

Details

Date
September 2003 
Type
Brief 
Edition
Volume 14, Number 3
Publisher
Research and Training Center on Community Living (RTC-CL)

Topics

  • Specific life stage
    • Children
    • Adolescents and young adults
    • Adults
  • Housing and residential services
    • Family supports/in-home services
    • Medicaid services (residential)