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October 6, 2023
California ranked 11th overall on the 2023 Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) State Scorecard. This brief provides an overview of California’s Scorecard performance, and key recommendations for improving the California LTSS system to better serve older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers. VIEW FULL BRIEF
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- long-term care financing ,
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- master plan for aging ,
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- medicare ,
- person-centered care ,
- quality measurement ,
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- The SCAN Foundation ,
September 7, 2021
Enacted on July 12, 2021, California’s 2021-22 budget addresses longstanding system challenges related to health care, long-term services and supports, workforce, and housing for older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers. It reflects the recommendations of the governor’s Master Plan for Aging issued earlier in 2021, and includes $4.6 billion to enhance access to home- and community-based services (HCBS), as outlined in California’s proposed HCBS Spending Plan.
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June 1, 2021
On May 14, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom released the May Revision of the 2021-22 proposed budget. The revision includes a $75.7 billion surplus with investments in economic recovery related to COVID-19 and resources to implement the Master Plan for Aging.
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- dual eligibles ,
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- master plan for aging ,
- medicaid ,
- person-centered care ,
January 14, 2021
On January 6, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom released a Master Plan for Aging (Master Plan) that establishes a vision for California for All Ages by 2030. This policy brief provides an overview of the Master Plan.
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- coordinated care ,
- COVID19 ,
- dual eligibles ,
- long-term care financing ,
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- master plan for aging ,
- medicaid ,
- medicare ,
- person-centered care ,
September 21, 2020
California ranked ninth overall on the 2020 LTSS State Scorecard, maintaining the same rank from 2017. This brief provides an overview of California’s Scorecard performance and key recommendations for transforming its LTSS system to better serve older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers.
- california ,
- caregiving ,
- complex care ,
- coordinated care ,
- COVID19 ,
- dual eligibles ,
- long-term care financing ,
- ltss ,
- master plan for aging ,
- medicaid ,
- medicare ,
- person-centered care ,
- quality measurement ,
- scorecard ,
- The SCAN Foundation ,
July 9, 2020
On June 29, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s 2020-21 budget. The budget addresses the $54.3 billion deficit while maintaining funding for critical programs serving older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers.
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- california ,
- caregiving ,
- complex care ,
- coordinated care ,
- dual eligibles ,
- ltss ,
- master plan for aging ,
- medicaid ,
- person-centered care ,
June 24, 2020
This policy brief takes a closer look at how California has implemented federal flexibilities to ensure the state’s long-term services and supports (LTSS) system is responsive to the needs of older adults and people with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- california ,
- complex care ,
- coordinated care ,
- COVID19 ,
- ltss ,
- medicaid ,
- medicare ,
- person-centered care ,
- The SCAN Foundation ,
May 27, 2020
On May 14, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom released the May Revision of the 2020-21 proposed budget. The revision includes cuts to and elimination of critical home- and community-based services that impact the state’s most vulnerable older adults, people with disabilities, and family caregivers.
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- california ,
- caregiving ,
- complex care ,
- coordinated care ,
- COVID19 ,
- dual eligibles ,
- ltss ,
- master plan for aging ,
- medicaid ,
- person-centered care ,
November 10, 2016
Immediately following the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Chernof wrote a letter to then President-elect Trump describing five action items for supporting older Americans.
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- long-term care financing ,
- ltss ,
- medicaid ,
- medicare ,
- person-centered care ,
- The SCAN Foundation ,
September 15, 2016
In this slide deck we discuss the case for financing older America’s long-term care need.
January 22, 2014
Following on previous reports describing the population who uses Medi-Cal-funded long-term services and supports, the California Medicaid Research Institute has produced a report that describes key characteristics of the population using LTSS across each of the state’s 58 counties. This report describes spending and service use patterns across the 58 counties.
March 20, 2013
This brief series summarizes current issues in financing long-term care and outlines policy options for increasing affordable access to services.
March 20, 2013
This brief series summarizes current issues in financing long-term care and outlines policy options for increasing affordable access to services.
March 20, 2013
Many older adults pay for long-term care out of their income and personal savings until they are poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. In an effort to avoid exhausting their resources and relying on Medicaid, others depend on unpaid family support or go without needed services. Learn more in this policy brief, developed with Avalere.
March 20, 2013
This paper serves as an overview of the Shaping Affordable Pathways for Aging with Dignity series. The series summarizes current issues in financing long-term care and outlines policy options for increasing affordable access to services.
March 20, 2013
For people who have been independent all of their lives, transitioning to Medicaid means depending on a means-tested welfare program for their health and long-term care services. Moreover, people transitioning to Medicaid are a substantial portion of state Medicaid expenditures. In an effort to avoid exhausting their resources and relying on Medicaid, others depend on unpaid family support or go without needed services.
March 20, 2013
The long-term care financing series summarizes current issues in financing long-term care and outlines policy options for increasing affordable access to services.
March 15, 2013
In this paper, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) discusses prior integration efforts; introduces a model for integrated entities and a framework for assessing and promoting quality of integrated care; and explores the challenges to implementing and achieving the goals of person-centered, integrated care for Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries. They use the word “framework” to describe the key concepts underlying the structure and process measures; it can also be expanded to include the content of performance measures as companions to the structure and process measures.