DISABILITY SCOOP: Community-based services should be mandatory Medicaid offering, federal agency says
A report from the National Council on Disability finds that weaknesses in home and community-based services directly contributed to “needless deaths” among people with intellectual and developmental disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. With limited investment in home and community-based services, the report notes that people often spend years on waiting lists and, during the worst days of the pandemic, those living in institutional settings typically had no alternative.
