A joint statement from the Indiana Disability Alliance The disability rights movement has always been rooted in a simple belief: people with disabilities belong in their communities. For decades, people with disabilities were unnecessarily separated from family, friends, schools, workplaces, and neighborhoods because institutional settings were often viewed as the default option for support. Families…
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Help Protect Home & Community-Based Services
Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver services help people with disabilities live, learn, work, and participate in their communities. As policymakers consider changes to these programs, they must hear directly from the people and families who rely on them or are waiting to access them. Please share how Medicaid and/or Waiver services have impacted your life or…
Why Choice in Disability Services Matters – Beth’s Story
When disability services change, the impact is personal. In a recent article from The Statehouse File, Beth Crane, a participant in The Arc of Indiana’s Advocacy Leadership Network (ALN), shared how changes to her caregiving services led her to explore Indiana’s self-directed care option, known through Indiana FSSA as INCharge Self-Directed Services. This option gives…
Case Management Transition Webinars
The Bureau of Disabilities Services (BDS) is hosting a virtual webinar to share information about upcoming changes to Medicaid waiver case management. June 29, 2026 2 p.m. ET Click Here to Attend As a reminder, the case management organizations (CMOs) selected to continue to provide waiver case management services are: Aging & In-Home Services of…
Waiver Case Management Organization Changes
The following Case Management Organizations have been selected to provide Medicaid waiver case management services statewide: Aging & In-Home Services of NE IN, Inc. Indiana Professional Management Group Inspire Case Management Unity of Indiana The Columbus Organization Each of these CMOs will provide case management for the following waivers: Family Support Waiver Community Integration &…
Medicaid Waiver Case Management Organization Changes
4.28.26 Update – Preliminary contracts have been awarded to case management organizations (CMOs) approved to provide case management services to people on the Community Integration and Habilitation (CIH), Family Supports (FSW), Health & Wellness (H&W), and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Medicaid Waivers. This does not affect the PathWays for Aging Waiver. The following are the approved…
Help Protect Home and Community-Based Services
Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver services help people with disabilities live, learn, work, and participate in their communities. As policymakers consider changes to these programs, they must hear directly from the people and families who rely on them or are waiting to access them.Please share how Medicaid and/or Waiver services have impacted your life or the…
The Arc of Indiana Statement on WSJ Reporting on Autism Therapy Medicaid Billing
Kim Dodson, CEO The Arc of Indiana is a nonprofit organization that advocates on issues important to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. We represent the people currently utilizing Medicaid and Medicaid Waiver services, as well as those who are waiting for these services. The recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporting on…
ABA Rates Update
The Arc of Indiana appreciates the Family and Social Services Administration’s (FSSA) January 30 announcement that the planned 10% Medicaid rate cut for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy will be reduced to 6%. Families and advocates had raised concerns that a 10% cut would significantly disrupt access to ABA services for their children. The 6%…
BDS establishes new process for group home to CIH waiver transition
Under a new process established by the Bureau of Disabilities Services (BDS), individuals who want to transition from a Supervised Group Living (SGL) setting to the Community Integration and Habilitation (CIH) waiver must reside in an SGL setting for a minimum of 365 consecutive days before being eligible to apply for a CIH waiver. This requirement…