Axios - Nearly 90% of the organizations providing Medicaid-funded community services for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities had staffing shortages this year, according to a trade group for the providers.
Staffing already is a long-standing problem for disability services providers and is expected to get worse as the effects of the budget reconciliation law and its nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts are felt.
- State Medicaid programs aren't required to cover home- and community-based services and have cut funding in the past to respond to budget constraints.
More than 60% of 469 providers surveyed by the trade group ANCOR in August and September said they've had to turn away referrals of new program participants due to lack of staff....More
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities spent an average of 50 months on waitlists for Medicaid home- and community-based care services last year, per KFF. MORE
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