Outcomes

• Established working group of stakeholders (such as relevant state agencies, consumer groups and private insurers) to oversee study from data collection and analysis to report phase.
• Profiled Medicaid recipients by type of long-term care services used.
• Collected primary data from recipients and providers regarding why certain services were utilized.

Lives Affected

This study and subsequent report affect policy development in the arena of long-term care. As such, no lives have been directly or immediately impacted with a particular service other than the potential of any new state Medicaid policies being formulated as a result of the analysis.

Cost Effectiveness

Being a research study rather than a service program, there are not any specific areas to point to relating to programmatic effectiveness. There is potential cost-effectiveness residing in any policy changes coming out of the report that allows recipients to find less expensive, non-institutional care for long-term care needs.