Our Community Connector tool (https://communityconnector.mathematica.org/) is designed to summarize a community’s social needs in one picture, or fingerprint; identify communities with similar fingerprints; and compare communities across key indicators of health care utilization and cost.
This primer is designed to help researchers, data scientists, and others who analyze health care claims or administrative data (herein referred to as “claims”) quickly join the effort to better understand, track, and contain COVID-19.
Clinical care accounts for a small part of the factors that affect population health. The rest is determined by social determinants of health (SDoH)—social, behavioral, and environmental factors that interact dynamically to keep people healthy.
UsersMedicaid enrollees increasingly are receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) in the home and community.
This MACPAC-commissioned report describes the characteristics and service use of Medicaid enrollees who used HCBS, and analyzes Medicaid spending for these HCBS users, by state and over time.
This seventh annual report from the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person rebalancing demonstration provides information about (1) the program; (2) how it grew and changed since transitions began in 2007; and (3) demonstration outcomes such as cost savings, transition rates, and quality...
This brief describes New York’s and Wisconsin’s sophisticated Medicaid managed long-term services and supports risk-adjustment models that use functional status data to predict long-term services and supports costs.
This report details the findings to date for the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Rebalancing Demonstration.
This is the first of two reports describing the development of a measure to assess potentially avoidable hospitalizations due to pressure ulcers among Medicaid fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries using home- and community-based services (HCBS).
This is the fifth in a series of annual reports from the national evaluation of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) rebalancing demonstration.
This methods report describes Mathematica Policy Research’s approach to creating risk-adjustment models using composite measures to profile care delivered to the home- and community-based service (HCBS) population.
This report focuses on the medical and long-term care expenditures for Medicaid beneficiaries who transition from institutional to community-based long-term services and supports (LTSS) and how those expenditures change after the transition.
For calendar year 2010, 28 states spent almost $23.6 billion on HCBS, with 80 percent of expenditures categorized as round-the-clock, home-based, and day services.
The fourth annual report of the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Evaluation includes analyses on (1) program implementation for the first five years; (2) descriptions of MFP participants and costs and types of services received; (3) trend analyses to detect shifts in the balance of state long-term care...
As states make home- and community-based services (HCBS) more accessible, researchers have become more interested in understanding service use and spending, but analyzing HCBS at the national level can be challenging.
This annual report shows that the national Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration, now in its fourth full year of implementation, appears to be achieving its broad goals.
This article examines the cost components that drive increased total costs after a medical fall over time, by severity of injury.
This report uses aggregate data from annual financial reports and service claims records submitted by grantees to examine the costs and types of community-based services received by participants in the Money Follows the Person program.
This is the second annual report on the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration, a federal initiative to help states reduce their reliance on institutional care for people needing long-term care and expand options for elderly people and individuals with disabilities to receive care in the community....