Beckett/Waiver question

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Parents,

If your child is a Medicaid recipient due to disability, does he/she

have to annually re-qualify for Medicaid?

In that re-qualifying process, are you re-verifying/re-certifying

that your child has a chronic brain-injury?

Here's why I'm asking. In Georgia, every year we have to go through

this process where we're essentially re-documenting our son's chronic

brain-injury. I keep wondering why we're re-inventing the wheel every

year if the neurologists say he has a brain-injury, it's permanent,

and there's nothing you can do about it.

Okay, but if that's true--that it's permanent and nothing can be done

to change it--then why do we have to re-verify his brain-injury every

year? Shouldn't a one-time documentation be enough?

Then I had a thought the other day. Maybe the reason why we have to

go through this arduous documentation process is because the

elgibility reviewers are *expecting* improvement because the law

mandates children are provided whatever is " necessary to correct or

ameliorate. "

So my question to other group members: Are you required to annually

re-certify your child's chronic brain-injury?

If not, what are your requirements?

Thanks.

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