Local medicaid home- and community-based services spending and nursing home admissions of younger adults

K.S. Thomas, L. Keohane and V. Mor

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 11, e15-e17

Abstract: We used fixed-effect models to examine the relationship between local spending on home- and community-based services (HCBSs) for cash-assisted Medicaid-only disabled (CAMOD) adults and younger adult admissions to nursing homes in the United States during 2001 through 2008, with control for facility and market characteristics and secular trends. We found that increased CAMOD Medicaid HCBS spending at the local level is associated with decreased admissions of younger adults to nursing homes. Our findings suggest that states' efforts to expand HCBS for this population should continue. © 2014, American Public Health Association Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords: age; community care; economics; home care; human; medicaid; middle aged; nursing home; statistics and numerical data; United States, Age Factors; Community Health Services; Home Care Services; Humans; Medicaid; Middle Aged; Nursing Homes; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302144

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