By Lisa Watts
Miller is chair of the Gerontology Department at UMass Boston, a professor, and a researcher at the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston.
Gerontologist Edward Allan Miller works to understand “why states do what they do” when it comes to how long-term care settings are reimbursed for the services and supports they provide. Miller, a fellow in the LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston, is a professor of gerontology and chair of the Department of Gerontology at UMass Boston.
Through one ambitious project, Miller is working with LTSS Center Co-Director Marc Cohen and two other colleagues to compile a state-by-state assessment of Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes, and to document the costs of services those nursing homes provide. Funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the study is the most comprehensive of its kind to date.
“It’s a common claim that Medicaid reimbursements to nursing homes are much less than the actual costs of providing care,” says Miller. “But when you try to look at documented empirical evidence, there’s not much there.”
Learn more about Miller and his research at the Gerontology Institute Blog.