title: Dually-eligible working-age adults with disabilities: issues and challenges as health reform is implemented.
abstract: This special section on working-age adults with disabilities dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid is based on two panel presentations at the June 2012 meeting of the AcademyHealth Disability Research Interest Group. The papers included here consider the issues of health care access and outcomes as well as employment for this group of approximately four million individuals, many with complex health care needs and high costs.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-3101, USA. jhall@ku.edu
authors.forename: Jean P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D004651:Employment; D005260:Female; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D008297:Male; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D014481:United States