The Maryland Department of Health is consolidating three of its Medicaid waiver programs managed by the Developmental Disabilities Administration into one program to make services easier to access.
The changes come as Marylanders with disabilities recently filed a class action lawsuit alleging the arbitrary termination of Medicaid benefits.
The new Community Pathways waiver program takes effect Monday and allows intellectually and developmentally disabled residents to go through one process to get waivers for Medicaid care…