Are Feds Advising States on How to Reduce Community-Based Services?

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Some self-advocates (including ADAPT, based here in IL) say yes.

Disability Scoop coverage:

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2011/08/09/advocates-allege-two-faced/13711/

" Among the possibilities, states could alter benefits, rates or set

new criteria for individuals to receive specific services under a

Medicaid home and community-based waiver, wrote Mann, who oversees

Medicaid at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

States may also allow their waivers to expire and are under no obligation to

renew them, Mann said. "

To access the fed's letter to the states:

https://www.cms.gov/smdl/downloads/SMD11-009.pdf

Q & A starts on page 3

-Gail