Publicly Funded Home and Community-Based Care for Children With Medical Complexity: Protocol for the Analysis of Medicaid Waiver Applications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with medical complexity are a group of children with multiple chronic conditions and functional limitations that represent the highest health care utilization and often require a substantial number of home and community-based services (HCBS). In many states, HCBS are offered to target populations through 1915(c) Medicaid waivers. To date, no standard methods or approaches have been established to evaluate or compare 1915(c) waivers across states in the United States for children.

Objective

The purpose of this analysis was to develop a systematic and reproducible approach to evaluate 1915(c) Medicaid waivers for overall coverage of children with medical complexity.

Methods

Data elements were extracted from Medicaid 1915(c) approved waiver applicatio

SUBMITTER: Keim-Malpass J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686641 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature