Study Ranks Medicaid Services for Persons With Intellectual DisabilitiesVermont Tops List; Mississippi Falls Short
OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Hot News In a national review of Medicaid-funded community-based programs for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Vermonts Medicaid program received the highest overall ranking and Mississippi received the lowest ranking. Arizona, Alaska, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Michigan, California, Hawaii, Colorado, and Connecticut were ranked second through tenth respectively. The bottom ten with the worst rankings for their Medicaid community-based programs for people with disabilities were: Indiana, Tennessee, Nebraska, Ohio, Louisiana, Illinois, the District of Columbia, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. These are findings of a report entitled The Case for Inclusion 2009 . . .
