Implications Of State Methods For Offering Personal Assistance Services

In June 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a MAX Medicaid Policy Brief (Brief 18) on the implications of different state methods for providing one type of home- and community-based (HCBS) long-term care (LTC) service — personal assistance. In particular, the brief focuses on the rates of personal assistance use and the overall balance of states’ long-term care spending.

States were divided into three categories for this analysis. The first category consists of states that offer personal assistance services through a state plan option, regardless of whether the state also offers these services through . . .