In the past two decades, many federal and state Medicaid initiatives have been designed to rebalance the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system by increasing access to home and community-based services (HCBS) in order to reduce the use of expensive institutional care. Despite considerable success, challenges remain in meeting the diverse needs of people who use HCBS while lowering the cost of their care. The path toward a sustainable LTSS system must be focused on how to better serve users of expensive HCBS, who often face significant disabilities that require intensive levels of service over extended periods of time.
Join Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy on June 5, 2019, from noon to 1:30 p.m. (ET) for a discussion of the needs of people whose HCBS services are the most costly and strategies for cost-effectively serving them. Carey Appold, Mathematica, will moderate a discussion with the following speakers: