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David Medeiros’s Livewire page is a first-person account of

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founding ABI Resources and later reporting concerns about

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Connecticut’s ABI Waiver. Personal experience can identify records to

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test; it is not an audit or legal

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finding. Review six parts: speaker role, contemporaneous documents, participant

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choice, person-centered plans, service delivery, and agency responses. Federal

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rules generally protect access to qualified willing providers

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and require HCBS planning to offer informed choices, subject

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to exceptions. Compare each incident with authorizations, referrals, plans,

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provider communications, payment records, and final agency determinations.

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A complaint, delay, disputed payment, or retaliation allegation does

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not prove fraud, discrimination, obstruction, or liability. Preserve

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the account, then verify each proposition independently at david-medeiros.com/abi-origin.