ADAPT, others slam GAO report on in-home services
WASHINGTON, DC, July 9, 2003 -- A July 7 report from the GAO criticizing the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on how they assure quality of care in state Medicaid waiver programs has angered the national group leading the fight to change Medicaid law to assure in-home services. ADAPT leader Bob Kafka says the report harms the move toward in-home services. Groups like the American Health Care Association, the national nursing-home operators' lobby, "now have a government report to make their case to slow down HCBS growth," he says.