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Local Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services Spending and Nursing Home Admissions of Younger Adults

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: We used fixed-effect models to examine the relationship between local spending on home- and community-based services (HCBSs) for cash-assisted Medicaid-only disabled (CAMOD) adults and younger adult admissions to nursing homes in the United States during 2001 through 2008, with control for facility and market characteristics and secular trends. We found that increased CAMOD Medicaid HCBS spending at the local level is associated with decreased admissions of younger adults to nursing homes. Our findings suggest that states' efforts to expand HCBS for this population should continue.

Source: American Journal of Public Health

DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2014.302144

Authors: Kali S. Thomas, Laura Keohane, Vincent Mor

Institutions: Brown University, Providence VA Medical Center

Language: English

Topic: Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

Subfield: General Health Professions

Field: Health Professions

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Institute on Aging