...: [email protected]. 2016 Self-Directed Long-Term Care Medicaid waivers Federalism. The evolution of federal and state policy over the last 35 years has expanded the availability and use of Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS). Within HCBS, pressure has risen to give participants more control...

... and participation trends (1999–2002) for Medicaid 1915(c) waivers, the largest Medicaid home- and community-based service program.  Design and Methods:  We collected annually reported Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Form 372 data from state officials for each waiver providing AT for the period from 1999...

... services Waivers Long-term care Adult foster care Nursing homes Provider payments varied by licensing category and over time, reflecting reimbursement policy changes for each of these settings. As shown in Figure 2 , ALF rates were set relatively high upon program inception and received steady...

... the nature of waiver-funded residential care, and the types of eligible service providers.These may be known as boarding homes, homes for the aged, assisted living facilities, adult foster care, rest homes, and other terms (Mollica & Johnson-Lamarche). Previous studies have identified factors...

... of America 2000 Medicaid Home and community based services Waivers Decision Editor: Laurence G. Branch, PhD The Medicaid home and community based services (HCBS) waiver program was established by Congress in 1981 under Section 1915(c) of the Social Security Act to shift services to the community and away...

... This longitudinal study analyzes the effect of labor market conditions and welfare policies accompanying the 1990s waivers granted by the federal government and Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) on California's welfare caseload. A monthly semilogarithmic rate...

... prediction were higher for the more restrictive screens. Results highlight differences in eligibility restrictiveness across states as well as possible tradeoffs of cost containment and access in designing a preadmission screen. 2176 waivers Eligibility Medicaid Home care Community-based services...

...John A. Capitman; Greg Arling; Cindi Bowling Medicaid home and community-based care waivers Personal care Informal support © 1987 The Gerontological Society of America 1987 Abstract Public and private costs were examined for nursing home applicants participating in the Virginia Nursing Home Pre...

... patients' requests not to be informed. There may be many reasons for acting in accord with such a request, but it is a mistake to conceptualize one's act as ‘respecting a right possessed by persons’. medical ethics informed consent autonomy information-waivers rights obligations DAVID E. OST...

...An analysis of tax implications arising under the UK tax system for the creditor schemes, particularly in relation to debt waivers and releases including debt-for-equity swaps. The chapter analyses the importance of a 'loan relationship' for purpose of UK corporation tax and how it affects the tax...

...0 16 03 2017 In the context of a book on the law and practice of restructuring, waivers, amendments, and standstills are generally the paths of least resistance and, if no further procedures need to be pursued to reach the desired resolution, should be the preferred route to a successful...

... in three ways: (1) comparing the success of different interest organizations comment letters concerning a proposed regulation, (2) conducting case studies of three major government decisions involving policy analysis, and (3) examining the use of waivers to improve profits. The chapter ends...

... EEOC v Texas Instruments TI 1996 abbreviations Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA) healthcare benefits retirement benefits early retirement reduction-in-force voluntary waivers Myors et al. ( 2008 ) compared workplace discrimination laws...

... to evaluate juveniles' waivers of right. Most states require juveniles to understand the words and concepts the Miranda warning and to assert their rights as clearly as adults. While the law posits the same standard for children and adults, developmental psychologists question adolescents...

.... The fragmented nature of payer sources greatly affects patients and caregivers, who often negotiate systems with limited knowledge. A large problem for people interviewed in this book was that they didn't know about waivers and other services that were available to them and didn't apply for them when they could...

...This chapter reviews the history of the IV-E waiver program and discusses some alternative proposals for promoting flexibility and innovation. In 2006, Congress did not renew the Health and Human Services' (HHS) authority to grant new child welfare waivers. The chapter offers a set...

... explores the roles of conditions, waivers, forfeitures, and repudiations. Consider this case: This analysis implies that had the parties specifically so provided, every trivial departure from the contractual arrangement would have to be treated as a breach of condition and thus a release from...

... these recommendations, only mandatory recording of interrogations can make visible that which takes place in secret, provide suspects with an objective record on which to appeal inquisitorial fact-finding, and enable trial judges to assess Miranda waivers and voluntariness and reliability...

... rules. It then describes three elements of analysis that can help illuminate how boilerplate waivers should be evaluated: the nature of the right in question and whether that right is alienable; the quality of consent by a recipient; and the extent of social dissemination of the rights deletion. It also...

...) (WTO, 2007). industrial policy lobbying managed trade policy review safety valves waivers Economic theory suggests that countries should pursue liberal trade policies and exchange goods and services on the basis of their comparative advantage. In practice, however, most nations actively...