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This Livewire page asks why disabled Connecticut residents

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are still suffering and attributes it to Medicaid mismanagement.

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Turn that broad claim into person-specific records.

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Check seven fields: eligibility; assessed need; authorized

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service; qualified and willing provider choices; person-centered

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plan; actual delivery dates; and notice or fair-hearing outcome.

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Federal rules protect provider choice, with exceptions,

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and require accessible person-centered planning for covered home and community-based services.

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Access provisions also require some state reporting on waiting lists, service timeliness, and quality.

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Those rules do not decide an individual case.

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A delay, waitlist, denial, unmet need, complaint, payment

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pattern, or poor outcome can be serious evidence but does

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not alone prove mismanagement, discrimination, retaliation, segregation, fraud, causation, or liability.

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Build the service record at david-medeiros.com/service-check.