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Medicaid Home And Community-Based Waivers: CMS Should Encourage States to Conduct Mortality Reviews for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities

05/04/2008 | Requests *

Summary

The GAO conducted a study in which they examined the extent to which states (1) include, as a critical incident, deaths among individuals with developmental disabilities in waiver programs; (2) have basic components in place to review such deaths; and (3) have adopted additional components to review deaths. The report outlines six basic mortality review components. Review the two key recommendations offered to CMS.

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Available Files

Summary Off-site link
Report PDF (868K, 54 pages)

Keywords

comprehensive mortality reviews; reporting deaths; Death as critical incident;

Topic

Developmental/Psychiatric Disabilities, Waiver

Type/Tool

Reports

Source

GAO: Government Accountability Office

State

All States/Territories

Date Created

11/04/2008

Contact

John Dicken

dickenj@gao.gov
202-512-7114

Short URL

www.hcbs.org/moreInfo.php/doc/2416

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