Product Description:
This Policy Research Brief reports on the implementation of the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services "waiver" program during its first 20 years, from Fiscal Year 1982 to Fiscal Year 2002. The review provides a description of the program, its initial purposes, patterns and trends in its use, its relationship to other services, and challenges in the years ahead. This issue is available online at http://ici.umn.edu/products/prb/143/default.html.