Can States Reduce Long-Term Care Spending Through HCBS?

June 11, 2009 H. Stephen Kaye, Ph.D., associate adjunct professor in the Institute for Health and Aging and co-director of the Disability Statistics Center at the University of California, San Francisco, gave this presentation at The Hilltop Institute Symposium on Thursday, June 11, 2009. Dr. Kaye began by showing data on national per capita Medicaid long-term care expenditures. Kaye noted that HCBS programs do not break states? budgets. The near identical per capita total long-term care spending for low versus high HCBS states confirms the cost neutrality of HCBS. Download the Report For more information on . . .