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US Medicaid 1915(c) HCBS Waivers, 2008

In 2008, there were 1,241,304 participants in the 284 waiver programs in US (Table 1) with expenditures totaling $29,854,615,870 (an average expenditure per capita of $100.54) (Table 2).

Table 1. US 1915(c) HCBS Waiver Participants, by Waiver Target Group, 2008
Waiver Target Group
[Number of Waivers] 		 Number of US 
Participants		  US Participants per 1,000 
Population
Total MR/DDnote [91]507,2201.71
Total TBI/SCInote [24]15,0090.05
Total Aged [20]140,1100.47
Total Aged/Disabled [63]457,4501.54
Total Disabled/Physically Disabled [33]76,9600.26
Total Children [37]29,5840.10
Total HIV/AIDSnote [14]12,5300.04
Total Mental Health [2]2,4430.01
Total [284]1,241,3044.18
Table 2. US 1915(c) HCBS Waiver Expenditures, by Waiver Target Group, 2008
Waiver Target Group
[Number of Waivers]		  US Expenditures    Expenditures per Capita 
 Total MR/DDnote [91] $21,763,933,457$73.29
 Total TBI/SCInote [24] $462,164,066$1.56
 Total Aged [20] $1,332,480,253$4.49
 Total Aged/Disabled [63] $4,502,805,774$15.16
 Total Disabled/Physically Disabled [33] $1,394,419,387$4.70
 Total Children [37] $327,612,700$1.10
 Total HIV/AIDSnote [14] $49,720,716$0.17
 Total Mental Health [2] $21,479,517$0.07
 Total [284] $29,854,615,870$100.54

This information is part of the Center for PAS report:

Ng, T. & Harrington, C. (February 2012). Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services Data, 2008.

Source: Center for PAS analysis of CMS Form 372 waiver data.

Notes:

Total MR/DD: Mental Retardation/Developmentally Disabled

Total TBI/SCI: Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury

Total HIV/AIDS: Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome


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