Expenditures for home- and community-based services for Medicaid-eligible older adults and disabled individuals through Section 1915(c) waivers, used by some assisted living providers and others, topped $6.6 billion in 2018, according to a report released this week by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently released the Medicaid LTSS Annual Expenditures Report for federal fiscal years (FFY) 2017 and 2018. This report discusses the long-term services and supports (LTSS) trends and growth in expenditures for home- and community-based services (HCBS). Among the report’s highlights: HCBS expenditures comprising total Medicaid LTSS expenditures surpassed…
Two longtime Centers for Medicare and Medicaid staffers — Liz Richter and Jeff Wu — will temporarily lead CMS under the Biden administration, according to a staff email from former CMS Administrator Seema Verma, and obtained by the Politico news organization.
The time is right for state policymakers to adopt policy and regulatory approaches to support the retention of benefit value in long-term care insurance policies. Doing so would help protect the financial resources of individuals and Medicaid.
The Department of Health and Human Services made a key announcement regarding home care on Friday: It approved the expansion of the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model, which began its first performance year in 2016.
In an open letter Tuesday congratulating members of the 117th Congress on the start of “a new and challenging legislative year,” Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO of Leading Age and acting president and CEO of VNAA/Elevating HOME, urged Congress to support senior care services.
The federal government would like the state of New York to return more than $54 million in improper Medicaid payments related to its personal care services program.
A home healthcare industry employee involved in a multi-million dollar fraud case was sentenced Wednesday by a federal judge to four years of probation, including six months of home detention, and was ordered to pay more than $94,000 in restitution to Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program.
The owner and operator of an Atlanta-based home healthcare provider has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for defrauding the Medicaid program out of almost $1 million.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline until Nov. 18 for those who would like to provide feedback its proposed national quality and outcomes measures for the Medicaid-funded home- and community-based services provided for older adults and others. Comments originally were due Oct. 19.
