Medicaid Cost For Autism – The Impact Of Special Education Funds

A couple of months ago, my colleague Monica E. Oss wrote a piece on the size of the adult population with disabilities and the high number of children with autism who will soon be adults (see Opportunities For Serving Adults With Disabilities – A Look At The Numbers). For the population with autism, there were striking differences in the projected total annual costs – $175 to $196 billion for adults compared to $61 to $68 billion for children.

Following that article, one of our readers suggested that autism costs for children were lower because of the role of special education in financing . . .