Long-Term Care (LTC): Financing Overview and Issues for Congress

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Release: 2010-02-01
Publisher: Congressional Research Service
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN/ASIN: B005V32UEK
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Long-Term Care (LTC) pdf
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Most long-term care (LTC) received by people with disabilities and/or other limitations in their capacity for self-care due to a physical, cognitive, or mental disability or condition is provided by informal providers—family and friends—who give care without compensation. Formal LTC services in the United States, however, are financed by a wide variety of public and private sources. The largest public payer of LTC in the country is, by far, the Medicaid program, paying for almost half (48.5%) of all formal LTC services. Medicaid is intended to provide a safety net for those who cannot afford to pay for LTC services. Because Medicaid is administered and partially financed by each state, there is wide variation in eligibility and benefits across the nation. Medicare and other federal and state programs finance an additional quarter (24.8%) of formal LTC services. Each program has distinct eligibility criteria and, thus, distinct target populations, and each covers a different set of Download Long-Term Care (LTC) for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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