Post by Logan on Feb 14, 2016 14:21:57 GMT -6
Audit: More than 100 disabled were on waitlist while $20M for services went unspent
CONCORD — More than 100 people with developmental disabilities remained on a waitlist for services at the end of fiscal year 2015 while $20 million in general funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services for those services was not spent.
A performance audit by the legislative budget assistant noted the services for the 101 developmentally disabled, and eight with acquired brain disorder, would have cost about $5 million.
Because the $20 million in general fund money was not spent, the state could not draw an equal amount of federal Medicaid money as a match bringing the total appropriation to nearly $40 million.
The audit notes that the nearly half a billion dollar budget for the bureau of developmental services was an 18 percent increase over the previous biennium and that the division and 10 area agencies that oversee regional programs were ill-equipped to utilize the money.
See more at: www.unionleader.com/Audit:-More-than-100-developmentally-disabled-were-on-waitlist-while-$20M-for-services-went-unspent
CONCORD — More than 100 people with developmental disabilities remained on a waitlist for services at the end of fiscal year 2015 while $20 million in general funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services for those services was not spent.
A performance audit by the legislative budget assistant noted the services for the 101 developmentally disabled, and eight with acquired brain disorder, would have cost about $5 million.
Because the $20 million in general fund money was not spent, the state could not draw an equal amount of federal Medicaid money as a match bringing the total appropriation to nearly $40 million.
The audit notes that the nearly half a billion dollar budget for the bureau of developmental services was an 18 percent increase over the previous biennium and that the division and 10 area agencies that oversee regional programs were ill-equipped to utilize the money.
See more at: www.unionleader.com/Audit:-More-than-100-developmentally-disabled-were-on-waitlist-while-$20M-for-services-went-unspent