Library Resources

1. Dual Eligibles: Medicaid’s Role for Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, 2009.

2. Saucier, P., Kasten, J., and Burwell, B. (2009). Federal Authority for Medicare Special Needs Plans and Their Relationship to State Medicaid Programs. Prepared by Thomson Reuters for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy.

   This brief, the first in a series of three, reviews the history and current status of the Federal Medicare Special Needs Plan authority, with particular attention to provisions of interest to state Medicaid programs.
   
   
3. CMS Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office
   
   Among other duties, this new Office created by the Affordable Care Act partners with states to develop new care models and improve the way dually enrolled Medicare-Medicaid beneficiaries get health care.
   
   
4. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc., From the Beneficiary Perspective: Core Elements to Guide Integrated Care for Dual Eligibles
   
   
5. Profiles of State Innovation: Roadmap for Improving Systems of Care for Dual Eligibles
   
   
6. Options for Integrating Care for Dual Eligible Beneficiaries
   
   
7. Supporting Alternative Integrated Models for Dual Eligibles: A Legal Analysis of Current and Future Options