"Financing Care for Patients With AIDS"

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"Financing Care for Patients With AIDS"

Journal of the American Medical Association (12/25/91) Vol. 266, No. 24, P. 3404
Wilensky, Gail R.

Abstract: Medicaid is already the largest provider of funding for AIDS patient care. The Health Care Financing Administration is working to help states develop Medicaid services to meet the needs of HIV-infected individuals, writes HCFA Administrator Gail R. Wilensky. Presently, both federal- and state-funded Medicaid makes health care available for more than 40 percent of AIDS patients. It is estimated that in 1992, state and federal Medicaid programs will spend a total of $2.1 billion on AIDS-related health care. Because many hosptials cannot afford inpatient care for people with AIDS, public and private financers must work together to help them. Medicare offers benefits to certain disabled people two years after they qualify for Social Security disability insurance benefits. Most adults with AIDS qualify for Medicaid because they are diabled and have low income and limited assets. In addition, AIDS patients may want to consider using case management and hospice care as additional options, Wilensky concludes.

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