MD--Maryland Disability Law Center

Document ID: CMS-2008-0035-0145
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: June 28 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: July 5 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: May 3 2012, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 2 2012, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 8106eee8
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Medicaid Program: State Plan Home and Community-Based Services, 5-Year Period for Waivers, Provider Payment Reassignment, and Setting Requirements for Community First Choice; Correction

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I write on behalf of Maryland Disability Law Center (MDLC), a statewide Protection & Advocacy agency, to urge further definition of that portion of the regulations related to home and community based settings. Our clients generally feel strongly about their history of being relegated in institutional settings or communities that are segregated by poverty, disability and/or minority concentration. We would like to see this historic segregation remedied by placing more focus on the definitions of home and community settings to give teeth and meaning to the vision of integration and equality of opportunity. MDLC specifically endorse the comments submitted by National Disabilty Rights Network and Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Thank you for consideration of these comments.