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Article: People Eligible for Medicaid Personal Care Services Get More Home Care, Use Nursing Homes Less When They Direct Their Own Care, Study Finds; Model Consumer-Directed Care Program Costs Medicaid No More Than Traditional Agency Care.
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- AScribe Health News Service
- Article date:
- November 18, 2003
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Byline: Burness Communications
PRINCETON, N.J., Nov. 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Arkansas Medicaid enrollees who had the opportunity to direct their own personal care services using a cash allowance were much more likely to actually receive such services than were enrollees who were eligible for services but had to get them in the usual way, from an agency, according to the results of a study published online today by the journal Health Affairs. Furthermore, even those who did obtain care from agencies received only about two-thirds of the hours of care to which they were entitled, the study found.
While this better access to care led to higher overall ...