Senior Policy Analysts Aaron Tripp, MSW, and Barbara Holt, PhD, presented this poster at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA’s) 66th Annual Scientific Meeting held November 20-24, 2013, in New Orleans.

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Senior Policy Analysts Aaron Tripp, MSW, and Stephanie Cannon-Jones, MA, presented this poster at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA’s) 66th Annual Scientific Meeting held November 20-24, 2013, in New Orleans.

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Policy Analyst Rebekah Natanov, MPH, and Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, MA, presented this poster at the Gerontological Society of America’s (GSA’s) 66th Annual Scientific Meeting held November 20-24, 2013, in New Orleans.

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Executive Director Cynthia H. Woodcock, MBA, gave this presentation at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Fiscal Analysts Seminar held October 8, 2013, in Annapolis. Woodcock discussed the characteristics of dual eligibles; pathways to dual eligibility; opportunities for and challenges of integrating care for this population; and approaches to integrating care.

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Hilltop Policy Analyst Aaron Tripp, MSW, gave a presentation at the 2013 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging in Chicago on March 14, 2013. New Jersey Care Partner Support Pilot Program: Findings—which has been presented before and continues to spark interest—discussed highlights of Hilltop’s evaluation of the Pilot Program, which was designed to improve the knowledge and skills of family caregivers for beneficiaries enrolled in waiver programs following a caregiver self-assessment. Implications for health care and social service professionals to better recognize and support families as partners in care and recommendations for further expansion of caregiver assessments were addressed.

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The Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports in Maryland Chart Book, Volume 3, The Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver is the last in a series of three that explores service utilization and expenditures for Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports in Maryland. Volume 1 explores service utilization and expenditures for Maryland Medicaid’s Living at Home Waiver, Older Adults Waiver, and Medical Day Care Waiver, as well as Maryland State Plan personal care services and Medicaid nursing facility utilization and expenditures. Volume 2 provides information on the states’ Medicaid Autism Waiver.

This chart book provides information about Maryland Medicaid participants who received services through the Traumatic Brain Injury Waiver state in fiscal years (FYs) 2008 through 2011.

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This chart book provides an overview of the number of Marylanders using long-term services and supports in state fiscal years (FYs) 2008 through 2011, and the cost to Medicaid to finance these services. Medicaid programs and services addressed in this chart book include the Living at Home Waiver, the Medical Day Care Services Waiver, the Older Adults Waiver, Medical Assistance Personal Care Program, and nursing facility residents.

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The Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports in Maryland Chart Book, Volume 2, The Autism Waiver is the second chart book in a series of two that explores service utilization and expenditures for Medicaid-funded long-term services and supports in Maryland. The first chart book in the series explores service utilization and expenditures for Maryland Medicaid’s Living at Home Waiver, Older Adults Waiver, and Medical Day Care Waiver, as well as Maryland State Plan personal care services and Medicaid nursing facility utilization and expenditures.

This chart book provides information about Maryland Medicaid participants who received services through the Autism Waiver in fiscal year (FY) 2008 through FY 2011.

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Hilltop Long-Term Services and Supports Policy and Research Director Donna C. Folkemer, MA, gave this presentation at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Fall Forum Pre-Conference Meeting on December 5, 2012, in Washington, DC. Folkemer discussed eight things legislators should know about quality. The pre-conference meeting was attended by legislators and legislative staff from across the country.

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Hilltop made several presentations at the 65th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America that took place November 14-18, 2012, in San Diego. On November 15, Hilltop Director of Special Studies Ian Stockwell, MA, gave a presentation to discuss the set of evaluation metrics for Maryland’s MFP program that Hilltop built and used to evaluate the program.

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