The Community Pathways Waiver (CPW) provides community-based services and supports to individuals with developmental or intellectual disabilities. The waiver includes both self-directed and traditional service delivery models. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2023.
The Home and Community-Based Options Waiver (CO Waiver) provides community-based services and supports that enable older adults and those with physical disabilities to continue living in their own homes or in assisted living facilities. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2023.
The Community First Choice Program (CFC), is a §1915(k) state plan program that provides home and community-based services (HCBS) to older adults and individuals with disabilities who meet an institutional level of care. Individuals can receive CFC services while enrolled in other HCBS programs. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2023.
The Brain Injury (BI) Waiver provides services to individuals aged 22 or older with a brain injury diagnosis who require specialty hospital or nursing facility level of care to be supported in their own homes or community-based settings. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2023.
Autism Waiver services enable individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder and who meet an institutional level of care to be supported in their own homes or community-based settings. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 through FY 2023.
This one-pager, written by Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, Director of Aging & Disability Studies Christin Diehl, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton, quantifies the impact of removing the 50% Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) floor on federal spending on Medicaid-funded home and community-based intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD) services in states. The one-pager estimates the federal funding decreases overall and for each of the ten states that would be the most impacted.
This one-pager, written by Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Data Scientist Leigh Goetschius, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton, quantifies the impact of removing the 50% Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) floor on the federal Medicaid funding to states. The one-pager estimates the federal funding decreases overall and for each of the ten states that would be the most impacted.
Hilltop Director of Analytics & Research Morgan Henderson, Senior Director of Health Reform Studies Laura Spicer, and Interim Executive Director Alice Middleton discuss their re-examination of 2018-2019 enrollment data from Arkansas Works (the state’s Medicaid work requirement program) in this article published in the Health Affairs Forefront series.
The Assistance in Community Integration Services (ACIS) pilot program began in late 2017 with the goal of reducing unnecessary health services use among Medicaid beneficiaries by providing tenancy and housing case management services through four lead entities (LEs). This infographic provides a brief overview of Hilltop’s 2022 review of the pilot program.
Hilltop Policy Analyst Advanced Roberto Millar, PhD, and Director of Aging and Disability Studies Christin Diehl coauthored this article published in Nursing Reports. This article discusses the results of a cross-sectional study that utilizes public data from 218 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in Maryland to examine the association between staffing requirements and quality of care ratings, as well as the role facility ownership plays.