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Publications from the Medicaid Cash and Counseling Evaluation

Reports

Final Evaluation Report:
"Cash and Counseling: Improving the Lives of Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Need Personal Care or Home- and Community-Based Services" (August 2007)

Effects on Consumers:
"Effect of Consumer Direction on Adults' Personal Care and Well-Being in Arkansas, New Jersey, and Florida" (May 2005)
"Do Consumer-Directed Medicaid Supportive Services Work for Children with Developmental Disabilities?" (September 2004)
"The Effect of Consumer Direction on Personal Assistance Received in Arkansas" (April 2003, rev. May 2004)
"Does Consumer Direction Affect the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance in Arkansas?" (March 2003)

Effects on Medicaid and Medicare Costs and Services:
"The Effect of Cash and Counseling on Medicaid and Medicare Costs: Findings for Adults in Three States" (May 2005)
"Medicaid Costs Under Consumer Direction for Florida Children with Developmental Disabilities" (December 2004)
"Does Arkansas' Cash and Counseling Program Affect Service Use and Public Costs?" (June 2004)

Effects on Caregivers:
"How Cash and Counseling Affects Informal Caregivers: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey" (July 2005)
"The Effects of Cash and Counseling on the Primary Informal Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disabilities" (April 2005)
"Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas" (August 2003)

Experiences of Paid Workers:
"Experiences of Workers Hired Under Cash and Counseling: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey" (August 2005)
"The Experiences of Workers Hired Under Consumer Direction in Arkansas" (June 2003)

Program Implementation Issues:
"Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the New Jersey Personal Preference Program" (July 2005)
"Consumer and Consultant Experiences in the Florida Consumer Directed Care Program" (June 2005)
"Changing to Consumer-Directed Care: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Florida" (July 2004)
"Consumer and Counselor Experiences in the Arkansas IndependentChoices Program" (January 2004)
"Lessons from the Implementation of Cash and Counseling in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey" (June 2003)
"Enabling Personal Preference: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in New Jersey" (March 2003)
"Moving to IndependentChoices: The Implementation of the Cash and Counseling Demonstration in Arkansas" (May 2002)

Program Demand and Participation:
"Assessing the Appeal of the Cash and Counseling Program in Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey" (July 2005)

Public Use Data Files

Survey instruments and evaluation design publications are available only in hard copy. Contact Publications for further information.

Survey Instruments:
Caregiver
Nine Month
Baseline
Four-Month Treatment Group

Evaluation Design:
Arkansas
Florida
New Jersey
New York

Published Articles

"The Research Design and Methodological Issues for the Cash and Counseling Evaluation." Health Services Research (February 2007)
"Consumer Enrollment and Experiences in the Cash and Counseling Program." Health Services Research (February 2007)
"Effects of Cash and Counseling on Personal Care and Well-Being." Health Services Research (February 2007)
"How Does Cash and Counseling Affect Costs?" Health Services Research (February 2007)
"How Caregivers and Workers Fared in Cash and Counseling." Health Services Research (February 2007)
"Reducing Nursing Home Use Through Consumer-Directed Personal Care Services." Medical Care (August 2006)
"How Do Hired Workers Fare Under Consumer-Directed Personal Care?" The Gerontologist (October 2005)
"Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction on Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas." The Gerontologist (August 2005)
"The Effects of Cash and Counseling on Personal Care Services and Medicaid Costs in Arkansas." Health Affairs (November 2003)
"Improving the Quality of Medicaid Personal Assistance Through Consumer Direction." Health Affairs ( March 2003)