According to data by the New York State Department of Health, NYC spends 11.7% of its Medicaid Expenditures on personal care services. The rest of the state only spends 4.6% of Medicaid dollars on PCA services. Moreover, while the rest of state spends 32.3% of Medicaid expenditures on nursing home care, NYC relies less on institutional care--spending only 24.1% of its Medicaid dollars on nursing home care.

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