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NEWS: Medicaid Cash and Counseling program expanding

Patient Access Weekly Advisor, May 14, 2008

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Cash and Counseling, the Medicaid option that gives elderly people the funds to hire their own help at home, is now being offered across the country, the Detroit Free Press reports.

New Jersey, Florida, and Arkansas were the first states to roll out the program in the late 1990s with grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration on Aging, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2004, grants were offered to 12 more states—Alabama, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia. Now, at least 18 more states have plans to offer Cash and Counseling programs starting in 2008, according to a new study by the Center for Health Care Strategies.

To read the full story in the Detroit Free Press, click here.

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