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Demonstration •Cash and Counseling •Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination, and Integration •Children with Special Health Care Needs •Community Partnerships for Older Adults •Community Treatment Alternatives for Children/Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances •Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE) •Diabetes Study of Federal Spending •Dual Eligibles: Monitoring Medicare/Medicaid Expenditures •Helping TANF Recipients with Disabilities Find and Keep Jobs •Medicaid Buy-In Program •Mental Health Services for Veterans •Money Follows the Person •National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services •Residential Treatment in Child/Adolescent Mental Health Services •Ticket to Work •Youth Transition Demonstration
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What Is the Center for Studying Disability Policy?
The Center for Studying Disability Policy was established in 2007 by Mathematica to inform disability policy formation with rigorous, objective research and data collected from the people disability policy aims to serve. The Center supplies the nation's policymakers with the information they need to navigate the transition to 21st-century disability policy. For over two decades, Mathematica has conducted many significant disability studies, including some of the first rigorous evaluations of employment supports for people with severe disabilities and the largest surveys of people with disabilities. More than 30 staff continues this pioneering work today through a wide range of innovative disability research and data collection. Read more.
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Recent PublicationsAbout Accessible Documents (*=accessible)Money Follows the Person Demonstration: State Long-Term Care Systems Before ImplementationThe fourth report from the Money Follows the Person (MFP) Demonstration provides an early assessment of the balance of home and community-based care services (HCBS) and institutional long-term care systems in states before MFP was implemented. By looking at the status of these long-term systems state-by-state, the assessment helps to develop a baseline to measure the program’s impacts on long-term care systems. Exploring the Variation in State Vocational Rehabilitation Program Exits After Service ReceiptState vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies provide important employment services for people with disabilities. Yet little is known about the characteristics of individuals who have received VR services compared to the general population of people with disabilities. Read more. Ticket to WorkThe latest reports from Mathematica's evaluation of the Ticket to Work (TTW) program, a major initiative of the Social Security Administration to increase disability beneficiaries' employment and reduce their dependence on benefits, highlight participation, beneficiary expectations, and methodology. Read more. Analysis of Medical Expenditures and Service Use of Medicaid Buy-In Participants, 2002-2005When workers with disabilities “buy into” Medicaid by paying monthly premiums, states can offer them Medicaid coverage when their income and assets would otherwise make them ineligible. Using MAX data and Medicare claims files, this report provides the most comprehensive information to date on patterns of Medicaid and Medicare spending and service use among Medicaid Buy-In participants. Researchers found that combined inflation-adjusted Medicaid and Medicare expenditures for Buy-In participants more than doubled from $887 million to $1.9 billion between 2002 and 2005, as did program enrollment. However, they also found that, when compared with other working-age disabled Medicaid enrollees, Buy-In participants in 2005 incurred lower annual Medicaid expenditures. This difference suggests that Buy-In participants who are working may require fewer services or a less expensive mix of services than other adult disabled Medicaid enrollees. Full Report Executive Summary Review of Evaluation Efforts of Programs to Promote Employment of Adults with DisabilitiesA new report reviews recent evaluation activities being conducted for 27 state and federal programs, policies, and initiatives designed to promote the employment of people with disabilities. The review provides information on the nature of the initiatives and evaluation efforts that have been recently completed or are currently under way, as well as findings to date related to effectiveness. (*=accessible document) |
Issue BriefsA New Way of Measuring SSDI Beneficiaries Reentering the WorkforceThis issue brief presents longitudinal employment and exit-for-work statistics for SSDI beneficiaries followed for 10 years from when they first received their award. These statistics are significant in that they show that the percentage who eventually leave the rolls for work is several times larger than one-half of one percent, a well-known number based on beneficiaries’ actions over a short period—a month or year. *Issue Brief Six-Month Results from Accelerated Benefits DemonstrationA new brief evaluates the impacts of the Accelerated Benefits Demonstration, which provides earlier access to health coverage and related services to uninsured beneficiaries. Early findings indicate that the demonstration increased the use of health care services and reduced reported unmet health care needs for these individuals during the first six months following random assignment. *Issue Brief Phone or Face-to-Face? Comparing Data from Surveys of People with DisabilitiesThis issue brief compares the quality of data collected for the National Beneficiary Survey (NBS), a survey of people with mental and physical impairments, via computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI). Issue Brief Successfully Implementing SOAR: Lessons Learned from Six StatesThis brief details factors that help states and communities successfully implement the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) initiative, a program to improve access to disability benefits for people who are homeless. Issue Brief (*=accessible document) |
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