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Article: Study: People Eligible for Medicaid Personal Care Services Get More Home Care, Use Nursing Homes Less When They Direct Their Own Care
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- November 19, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /U.S. 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 costs for
personal care under the consumer-directed program, these added costs ...