Advocates rallied outside the State House in March to urge lawmakers to oppose planned cuts to the Developmental Disabilities Administration in fiscal 2026. Many of those cuts were averted, but the DDA now faces a challenge of determining recipients’ eligibility for services. (Photo by Danielle J. Brown/Maryland Matters)
A group of Medicaid recipients has sued the Maryland Department of Health for a “dysfunctional” system of determining eligibility that they say has denied services to those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The failure of the department’s annual “redetermination” process has already caused a number of recipients to lose coverage, the suit says, and has the potential to expose thousands of disabled Marylanders with disabilities to institutionalization or homelessness as they lose the services that allow them to live independently…