DOJ Says Virginia Delay To Medicaid Waiver Reform Prevents Compliance With Developmental Disability Settlement

On June 15, 2015, the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) expressed concern that the Commonwealth of Virginia was not moving quickly enough to improve its community-based developmental disability services as required by a DOJ settlement agreement. Key concerns centered on how the state has used proceeds from the sale of the state-run Training Centers and a two-year delay of certain reforms to redesign Virginia’s home- and community-based services (HCBS) waivers for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) to change the service definition and funding rates to support integration, independence, self-sufficiency, and quality . . .