Description: Coverage of Medicaid home and community-based services under the 1915(i) state plan option: Attractive features and important considerations

Description: There are three parts to this article: 1. An overview of the demographics and method of supply of LTC 2. A review of the ongoing debate on the role of public funding, and 3. A summary of the insurance industry’s response

Description: As the topic of affordable long-term care (LTC) insurance comes into focus in political conversations, we often find ourselves thinking, “What is going to happen to the private LTC insurance industry going forward?” The need for LTC in the United States is not going away, especially as the population continues to age. With this in mind, this article explores three possible future paths for LTC insurance funding and the associated implications for the private LTC industry.

Description: The Role of Actuaries in Non-Traditional Long-Term Care InsuranceMedicare, Medicaid, PACE & Wisconsin's Family Care program. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, August 2002, Issue No. 6.

Description: This article provides some state officials' responses to a request for information from legislators related to the study and reform of Medicaid long-term care (LTC) eligibility and estate recovery rules. In those replies, there is strong evidence that Medicaid eligibility and estate recovery rules are subject to frequent and egregious abuses.