Previously closed slots for Indiana’s Medicaid waivers reopened on July 1. Those slots released by the state for the coming year will only cover about one-third of the 13,000 people still on the waitlist for home- and community-based health services.
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration will release more than 2,600 slots for the Pathways waiver and about 1,800 slots for the Health and Wellness waiver, according to the agency’s deputy chief of staff, Marcus Barlow. He said FSSA will release those slots in July and August.
As of June, there were about 5,500 people on the Health and Wellness waitlist and about 7,900 on the Pathways waiver waitlist…