Interactions between Medicare and Medicaid home care in Connecticut: responses to the 1997 BBA.
Although overlaps exist in the provision of home care services financed by Medicare and Medicaid, interactions of the two funding sources at the beneficiary and home care provider levels have not been widely studied. The recent dramatic declines in Medicare home health spending present a rare opportunity to examine how changes in Medicare spending can affect the provision of Medicaid home care services. We conducted a study of Medicare-Medicaid dynamics in the state of Connecticut to shed light on the inter-relationships of the two funding sources.
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