Mostly Medicaid Winter 2008/2009

Winter 2008/2009 Medicaid Crossword

(Clues on next page, Answers in back)

Across 1. _____ care. estimated

at $500M for NV hospitals in 2007.

6. characteristic of someone that determines whether they get Medicaid coverage

8. percent of poor Americans estimated not covered by Medicaid on Wikipedia

9. services optional for over 21s, req'd for under 21s

13. last state to form a Medicaid program. did so in 1982.

14. having delicate health 17. tasks of everyday life 18. used to get into the

program 19. this is already starting

to rise. Kaiser has estimated a 1 to 1 relationship between this and unemployment (1M this : 1% increase in unemployment)

Down 2. title that created the program 3. the NY one is $15B 4. the number of new CMS-required hospital quality reporting measures 5. key to ROI. tricky in all areas of performance 7. state that just got $775M in emergency funds from CMS for late Medicaid bills. 10. what the Rio Grande hospital demo project is trying to reduce 11. tasks key to independent living 12. one of the crazy words in this issue used to describe CMS pay for performance efforts 14. enrollment _____. some states already have this on new entrants to their Medicaid program

(to keep them out) 15. percent of avg state funds (including FMAP expenditure) spent on Mcaid each year 16. ______ Budget Act. 1995 legislation that first authorized S-CHIP

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Answers to Winter 2008 / 2009 Crossword

Further Reading (Notes and References) 1 Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/frail (accessed: November 12, 2008). 2 "Frailty: Emergence and Consequences in Women Aged 65 and Older in the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study." July 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Volume 53, Issue 8, pages 1321-1330). 3 Administration on Aging, http://www.aoa.gov/prof/nursing/nursing_grants.aspx 4 Frailty in Elderly Can Be Proactively Managed: An Expert Interview with Renee Roberts, MSN, RN, NP-C http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/582349 5 SeniorMetrix 6 John E. Wennberg, Elliott S. Fisher, and Jonathan S. Skinner “Geography and the Debate over Medicare Reform. A reform proposal that addresses some underlying causes of Medicare funding woes: geographic

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