Long Term Care: Elderly Individuals Could Find Significant Variation in the Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services

September, 2002 GAO-02-1131T Long Term Care: Elderly Individuals Could Find Significant Variation in the Availability of Medicaid Home and Community Services Statement of Kathryn G. Allen, Director, Health CareMedicaid and Private Health Insurance Issues My remarks will summarize findings of a report that we are releasing today that examines four geographically diverse states Kansas, Louisiana, New York, and Oregon that varied in their coverage of Medicaid home and community-based services. At your request, we examined how these states coverage policies affected long-term care services available to elderly individuals needing care. We focused on three specific issues . . .