The HCBS Taxonomy: A New Language For Classifying Home- And Community-Based Services

In August 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released a MAX Medicaid Policy Brief (#19) addressing CMS development of a new home- and community-based services (HCBS) taxonomy. The HCBS taxonomy is a uniform classification system composed of 18 categories and 66 services and provides a common language for states and CMS to use in describing and categorizing community-based long-term care services. This Medicaid brief describes the HCBS taxonomy and presents findings on HCBS expenditures and users by type of service for the 28 states whose MAX data files were approved by June 1, 2013 . . .