People with Disabilities
The Center's disability related projects include research, dissemination and technical assistance on legal, health care and work-related issues for children and adults with or at-risk of a disability or chronic conditions, including mental illness, addiction disorder, lead poisoning, developmental delay or HIV Infection. Specific projects include:
- Legal analysis of issues faced by managed behavioral health care organizations.
- Research related to implementation of a 1999 Supreme Court decision (Olmstead v. L.C.), expected to lead to deinstitutionalization of thousands of people with disabilities.
- Technical assistance on federal and state policies on work-incentives for people with disabilities.
Related Publications
Publications Available Online
Rosenbaum, S., Wilensky, S., Shin, P., and Whittington, R. Managed Care and Medi-Cal Beneficiaries with Disabilities: Assessing Current State Practice in a Changing Federal Policy Environment. The California Endowment. July 2006.
Rosenbaum, S., Wilensky, S., and Shin, P. Achieving "Readiness" in Medi-Cal's Managed Care Expansion for Persons with Disabilities: Issues and Process. The California Endowment. August 2005.
Stewart, A., Cox, M., Teitelbaum, J., and Rosenbaum, S. Beyond Olmstead and Toward Community Integration: Measuring Progress and Change. Center for Health Care Strategies. December 2003.
Cox, M., Stewart, A., and Rosenbaum, S. Review of the Literature Regarding Community Integration: Services Necessary for Individuals with Disabilities to Live in their Own Homes. Center for Health Care Strategies. May 2003.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. A Sound Investment: Identifying and Treating Alcohol Problems. April 30, 2003.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. The Alcohol Cost Calculator. April 30, 2003.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. Primer 1: Treating Alcoholism as a Chronic Disease. March 1, 2003.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. Talking About Alcohol Problems and Alcoholism Treatment. March 1, 2003.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. Promote Health, Modify Alcohol Use, and Save on Business Costs. Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, Issue Brief #2. December 2002.
Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems. Seven Tools to Lowering the Hidden Costs of Alcohol Problems. Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems, Issue Brief #1. December 2002.
Goplerud, E. and Cimons, M. Workplace Solutions: Treating Alcohol Problems through Employment-based Health Insurance. Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems Research Report. December 2002.
Stewart, A., Teitelbaum, J. and Rosenbaum, S. Implementing Community Integration: A Review of State Olmstead Plans. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. October 2002.
Rosenbaum., S., Teitelbaum, J., Bartoshesky, A., and Stewart, A.
Community
Integration: The Role of Individual Assessment. Center for
Health Care Strategies, Inc. October 2002.
Teitelbaum, J., Stewart, A., and Cox, M. Chronic
Conditions and
Disability Policy: An Overview of Selected Issues. Presented at 1st
Annual Chronic Disease Conference, D.C. Department of Health and The George
Washington University, September 17, 2002.
Jensen, A., Silverstein, R., Folkemer, D., and Straw, T. Policy Frameworks for Designing Medicaid Buy-In Programs and Related State Work Incentive Initiatives. View Executive Summary. May 2002.
Folkemer, D., Jensen, A., Silverstein, R., Straw, T. The Medicaid Buy-In Program: Lessons Learned from Nine 'Early Implementer' States. View Executive Summary. May 2002.
Folkemer, D., Jensen, A., Silverstein, R., Straw, T. Medicaid Buy-In Programs: Case Studies of Early Implementer States. May 2002.
Jensen, A., Silverstein, R., and Folkemer, D. A Summary Description of the Federal Income Maintenance and Health Care Programs for Disabled Persons Who Are Working or Want to Work. Spring 2002.
Rosenbaum, S., Teitelbaum, J., and Stewart, A. The Americans with Disabilities Act and Community Integration: Understanding the Concept of Fundamental Alteration. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. Working Paper, (May 2002).
Rosenbaum, S., Stewart, A., and Teitelbaum, J. Defining "Reasonable Pace" in the Post-Olmstead Environment, (April 2002) (Download PDF file now)
Rosenbaum, S.,Teitelbaum, J.,Stewart, A., An Analysis of Olmstead Complaints: Implications for Policy and Long-Term Planning. December 2001.(Download PDF file now)
Rosenbaum, S., Stewart, A., and Teitelbaum, J. Long Term Care After Olmstead: Developing the Building Blocks for Change. Testimony Before the United States Senate Special Committee on Aging. September 24, 2001. (Download PDF Testimony now) (Download PDF of PowerPoint presentation)
Rosenbaum, S. The Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. September 2000.
Rosenbaum, S. Olmstead v. LC.: Implications for Older Persons with Mental and Physical Disabilities. AARP Public Policy Institute. November 2000.
Rosenbaum, S., Teitelbaum, J., Mauery, R., Zakheim, M., and Golde, G. An Evaluation of Agreements Between Managed Care Organizations and Community-Based Mental Illness and Addiction Disorder Treatment and Prevention Providers. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Managed Behavioral Health Care-Issue Brief Series #9. May 2000.
Rosenbaum, S. Olmstead v. LC: Analysis and Implications for Medicaid Policy. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. May 2000.
Rosenbaum, S. The
Olmstead Decision: Implications for Medicaid. Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation. March 2000.
Wehr, E. Issue Brief: Basic Elements of Care Coordination for Persons with Special Health Care Needs in Medicaid Managed Care. Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. February 2000.
Ireys, H.T., Wehr, E., and Cooke, R.E. Defining Medical Necessity: Strategies for Promoting Access to Quality Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Other Special Health Care Needs. National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University. 1999. (Link to order online)
Rosenbaum, S., Teitelbaum, J., and Silverstein, R. The
Americans With Disabilities Act: Implications for Managed Care for Persons
with Mental Illness and Addiction Disorders. The Managed Behavioral
Health Care Issue Brief Series #5 & 6. November 1999.
Rosenbaum, S. Olmstead v. LC: Implications for Persons with Mental Illness and Addiction Disorders. July 1999.
Meeting the Challenge of Serving People with Disabilities: A Resource Guide for Assessing the Performance of Managed Care Organizations. Office of Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 1998.
Articles Published in Professional Literature
Rosenbaum, S., Teitelbaum, J., and Stewart, A., Olmstead v. L.C.: Implications for Medicaid and Other Publicly Funded Health Services for Symposium: Barriers to Access to Health Care. Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Health Matrix: Journal of Law -Medicine. Vol. 12, No. 1. Winter 2002.
Rosenbaum, S. Legal Report: "The Olmstead Decision: Implications for State Health Policy," Health Affairs. September/October 2000.
Maloy, K.A. The Tennessee Children's Plan: How Do We Get There? In Evaluating Mental Health Services: How Do Programs for Children " Work" in The Real World? Eds. C. Nixon and D. Northrup; Newborn Park CA: Sage Publications. 1997
Other Publications
Wehr, E. Medicaid Managed Care for Individuals with Disabilities. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, NRH Research Center.
Scales, J., Folkemer, D., and Jensen, A. Ticket to Work: Medicaid Buy-In Options for Working People with Disabilities. July 2000.
Borzi, P., and Rosenbaum, S. Behavioral Health Benefits for Public Employees: Examining Key Provisions of State Employee Benefit Contracts, prepared under contract with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. October 1999
Rosenbaum, S., Borzi, P., and Teitelbaum, J. An Analysis of the Health-Related Implications of Federal Legislation on Persons with Disabilities: Welfare Reform, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and Medicaid Reform. Prepared for the Brandeis University Center for Vulnerable Populations. August 1997.
Borzi, P. Summary of Selected Portions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and "New Federal Requirements for Maternity Coverage and Mental Health Parity," New Employee Benefit Changes for 1997, American Bar Association. February 1997.
