The Home and Community‐Based Options Waiver (CO Waiver) provides community‐based services and supports that enable older adults and those with physical disabilities to continue living in their own homes or in assisted living facilities. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 to FY 2021.
The Community First Choice Program (CFC) is a §1915(k) state plan program that provides home and community‐based services (HCBS) to older adults and individuals with disabilities who meet an institutional level of care. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 to FY 2021.
The Brain Injury (BI) Waiver provides services to individuals aged 22 or older with a brain injury diagnosis who require specialty hospital or nursing facility level of care to be supported in their own homes or community‐based settings. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2017 to FY 2021.
Due to the high demand for Autism Waiver services and a defined capacity, individuals wishing to receive waiver services must have their name placed on the Autism Waiver Registry. This infographic presents information for fiscal year (FY) 2019 to FY 2023.
Autism Waiver services enable individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder and who meet an institutional level of care to be supported in their own homes or community‐based settings. This infographic presents information for fiscal years (FYs) 2017 through 2021.
This report describes the services The Hilltop Institute provided to the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) under the Master Agreement between Hilltop and MDH. The report covers fiscal year (FY) 2023 (July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023). Hilltop’s interdisciplinary staff provided a wide range of services, including Medicaid program development and policy analysis; HealthChoice program support, evaluation, and financial analysis; long-term services and supports program development, policy analysis, and financial analytics; and data management and web-accessible database development.
Pursuant to Maryland Health-General §15-103.5 and Insurance Article §19-807(d)(2), the Maryland Department of Health submits an annual report to the Governor and various House and Senate committees addressing the progress of the rate-setting process; a comparison of Maryland Medicaid’s reimbursement rates with those of other states; the schedule for adjusting Maryland’s reimbursement rates; and the estimated costs of implementing the above schedule and proposed changes to the fee-for-service reimbursement rates. This report, dated January 2024, satisfies these requirements for fiscal year 2023.
In this article published in the Gerontologist, Hilltop Director of Aging & Disability Studies Christin Diehl and Policy Analyst Roberto Millar, PhD—along with Nancy Kusmaul, PhD, and Ian Stockwell, PhD, from UMBC—discuss their study, which aimed to compare two quality frameworks: one based on observational factors and one based on family satisfaction.
Policy Analyst Parker James presented at the National Alliance of State & Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) National HIV and Hepatitis Technical Assistance Meeting for the breakout session titled “Data Sharing between Surveillance and Medicaid Population Based Data Use.” His presentation focused on the successful collaboration between HIV Surveillance, Medicaid, and Hilltop in sharing HIV viral suppression data for quality measurement and improvement. This work is funded through the Health Resources and Service Administration’s Special Projects of National Significance Program, which supports the development of innovative models of HIV care and treatment.
In this article in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Hilltop Principal Data Scientist Morgan Henderson and Policy Analyst Morgane Mouslim posit that the reason there are no compliance studies is not because of lack of interest but because of the complexity of the landscape to which the regulation applies. Read the article online.
