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Health Care in Transition: Technology Assessment in the Private Sector
Health Care in Transition: Technology Assessment in the Private Sector Medical technology, broadly construed, embraces innovations in medicine--new drugs, biologics, medical devices, and procedures--as well as existing therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities. The evaluation of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of medical technology, therefore, is a matter of substantial interest to many parties…
Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida Barbara Phillips and Barbara Schneider Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 2004 PDF Version (136 PDF pages)
Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida
This report describes the design and implementation of the Consumer-Directed Care Research Project (CDC), Florida's model of Cash and Counseling, and draws lessons from the state's experience. The report is based primarily on in-person interviews conducted in January 2002, about 18 months after the project began enrolling beneficiaries. Interviews were conducted with Florida state officials,…
Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Report to Congress
Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2004
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2004 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the seventh annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 2001, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work…
Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.
Final Report July 2004 Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Prepared by: The Lewin Group and its subcontractor The Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government Contract No.: 282-98-0016; Task Order 34
Impacts of a Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Program on Children at School Entry and Beyond: Findings from the NEWWS Child Outcomes Study
By Sharon M. McGroder, Ph.D., Martha J. Zaslow, Ph.D., Kristin A. Moore, Ph.D., and Jennifer L. Brooks, Ph.D. Child Trends
Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States: Final Report
This project, which resulted in both a key highlights issue brief and a full report, examines how a state's ability to fund social welfare programs affects its state spending choices on programs to support low-income populations. The project includes a two-part study of state spending on social services. The first part uses existing data sources to build a multi-variate, fifty-state model to…
Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States: Key Findings
Content The Study What We Found Endnote Social welfare programs strive to improve the well-being of needy and vulnerable populations. The fact that states spend different amounts on these programs is well known, but why they do so is less understood, including the extent to which differences are affected by states' relative fiscal capacity, defined as their ability to raise revenue through…
New TechForLTC.org Web Site Offers Comprehensive Information on Technologies for Health Professionals in Long-Term Care Settings
This announces the launch of a comprehensive, searchable Web site that contains information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of life and care in long-term care residential settings, http://www.techforltc.org/.
New TechForLTC.org Web Site Offers Comprehensive Information on Technologies for Health Professionals in Long-Term Care Settings
New TechForLTC.Org Web Site Offers Comprehensive Information on Technologies for Health Professionals in Long-Term Care Settings PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2004/techPR.pdf (3 PDF pages) HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced the launch of a comprehensive, searchable Web site that contains information on hundreds of technology products to improve quality of…
Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices
This report focuses on workers' compensation laws and systems as they pertain to domestic service workers, and in particular, PAS workers in 50 states, the District of Columbia, five U.S.
Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Accessing Workers' Compensation Insurance for Consumer-Employed Personal Assistance Service Workers: Issues, Challenges and Promising Practices Susan A. Flanagan, M.P.H. Westchester Consulting Group June 7, 2004 PDF Version (172 PDF pages)
Interaction of Child Support and TANF: Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
By: Cynthia Miller, MDRC, Mary Farrell, The Lewin Group, Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Daniel R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Prepared for: Jennifer Burnszynski and Linda Mellgren Research Brief (in PDF format) Research Summary (in PDF format)
Children in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child-Only Cases with Relative Caregivers
Between 1996 and 2001, welfare cases declined nationally by 52 percent, while child-only cases declined by much less. Thus, while the number of child-only cases has fluctuated over time, their proportionate share of the TANF caseload has increased. Children in TANF child-only cases with relative caregivers occupy uncertain territory between the TANF and the child welfare service systems. Since…
Does Arkansas' Cash and Counseling Affect Service Use and Public Costs?
The evaluation of the national Cash and Counseling Demonstration enables researchers to rigorously analyze costs under agency-directed and consumer-directed approaches. In this report, the authors use results from Arkansas' IndependentChoices, the first of three Cash and Counseling demonstration programs to be implemented, to explore the program's effect on Medicaid PCS costs and on Medicaid and…
Does Arkansas' Cash and Counseling Affect Service Use and Public Costs?
Stacy Dale, Randall Brown and Barbara Phillips Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. June 2004 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-95-0046 between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) and the University of Maryland.
Children in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Child-Only Cases with Relative Caregivers
Content Background Research Questions and Methods Key Findings Background Since the establishment of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, much attention has been given to reductions in the number of welfare cases. Welfare cases declined nationally by 52 percent between 1996 and 2001; however, child-only cases declined by much less.