Forum Session
| Date: | APRIL 25, 2008 | ||
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| Manager: | Carol V. O'Shaughnessy | ||
| Summary: | For decades, federal and state policymakers have focused on the goals of better managing overall long-term care spending, offering consumers broader access to home and community-based services, and coordinating long-term care services. States have taken different approaches to meet these goals. Approaches range from initiation of managed long-term care programs to consolidation of state long-term care administration and financing in a single state agency. To date, direct state administration is still the dominant way services are financed and delivered, but some believe that state Medicaid managed long-term care arrangements may grow in the future. This Forum session focused on state approaches to managing long-term care. It included an overview of Medicaid managed care and a discussion by state representatives who have redesigned long-term care financing and service delivery, with and without using a capitated managed care approach. | ||
| Speakers: | Paul Saucier, Director, Institute for Public Sector Innovation, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine; Mary Sowers, Technical Director, Home and Community-Based Services Waivers Program, Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Judith Frye, Director, Office of Family Care Expansion, Division of Long-Term Care, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services; Pamela Coleman, Deputy Director, Medicaid/CHIP Division, Texas Health and Human Services Commission; Charles E. Reed, Chair, Washington State Home Care Quality Authority Slides from the presentations by Mr. Saucier, Ms. Sowers, Ms. Frye, Ms. Coleman, and Mr. Reed are available for download. |
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| Related Materials: |
See also the entries for two related Forum sessions on consumer direction and Money Follows the Person (November 2008) and support of family caregivers (September 2007). A Basic on long-term services and supports is also available. |
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