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Article: State Medicaid Programs Offering Personal Care Services.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- Health Care Financing Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this research was to systematically describe the two predominant means through which Medicaid participants receive personal care services: the Medicaid Title XIX PCS optional State plan benefit; and the Medicaid 1915(c) HCBS waiver program. Our goal was twofold: to offer State and national statistics on the number of Medicaid personal care participants and expenditures; and to describe how the States vary in their implementation of the two programs.
Personal care services are authorized, defined, and periodically updated in the Federal Register (1997). Such services are further defined in section 4480 of the State Medicaid ...