Managed Long Term Services and Supports (MLTSS) refers to the delivery of long term services and supports through capitated Medicaid managed care programs. Increasing numbers of States are using MLTSS as a strategy for expanding home- and community-based services, promoting community inclusion, ensuring quality and increasing efficiency. The number of States with MLTSS programs increased from 8 in 2004 to 16 in 2012, and CMS has experienced increasing interest from States in the form of concept papers, waiver applications and requests for technical assistance.
MLTSS offers States a broad and flexible set of program design options, and may be used as an overarching structure to promote initiatives such as Money Follows the Person, participant-directed services, the Balancing Incentive Program, etc. States and stakeholders have expressed an interest in learning more about MLTSS, and how new LTSS opportunities in the Affordable Care Act may be incorporated into an MLTSS program.