The government will do away with rules requiring that people with disabilities be served in the community under a settlement with a handful of states that advocates say sidesteps decades of precedent.

Kimberly Bumgardner Bergman (48) speaks with colleague Danielle Knavel (42) about their work as Direct Support Professionals (DSP). Kimberly recalls the period she decided to move in with a group to p...

New federal guidance is detailing how more stringent Medicaid eligibility rules will be applied but doing little to assuage concerns about how the changes may impact those with developmental disabilit...

People with disabilities or the eldelry may be forced to live at a nursing home or other institution as Medicaid cuts make access to home healthcare services harder to access.

On June 18, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a formal opinion arguing that neither Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act nor Title II of the ADA requires states to serv...

After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...

Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded.

Legislation that would make home- and community-based services a mandatory Medicaid benefit has been reintroduced in the Senate, with potential benefits for assisted living providers and the older adu...

Last Thanksgiving, while the rest of us were trying not to start a fight at the dinner table, President Trump started one on the internet. He took to Truth Social to call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “seri...

The bipartisan Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act urges the Office of Management and Budget to establish a Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for direct support professio...

The bipartisan Recognizing the Role of Direct Support Professionals Act urges the Office of Management and Budget to establish a Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) for direct support professio...

The Trump administration is withholding more Medicaid payments, citing suspected fraud and compliance concerns involving programs serving people with developmental disabilities and others.

While tremendous progress has been made over the past three decades, Disability Pride Month reminds us that inclusion is an ongoing commitment — one that requires all of us to continue removing barrie...

More than 25 years after Olmstead, the right to community-based care is being challenged again. Amivie's VP of Government Relations reflects on what's at stake.

Federal education officials are offering up more specifics about their plans to offload many special ed responsibilities, but their efforts to reassure stakeholders are doing little to ease concerns.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, introduced the...

While such a memo does not have the force and effect of law, it represents the latest in a long line of actions subverting dignity, choice and community for people with disabilities—principles that ar...

Federal Medicaid chief Dr. Mehmet Oz is supporting Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after other state leaders accused him of allowing rampant fraud. The allegations of a widespread issue are currently unproven.

The challenges facing the long-term care system, which includes older adults, people with disabilities, direct care workers and family caregivers, are worsening, according to Robert Espinoza, founder ...

This workforce and the home and community-based care system that supports them is in crisis.

People with disabilities and their families told NC legislators more funding is needed for a program that allows them to live in communities.

Patients are getting stuck in the emergency department for days while waiting for a spot in an inpatient ward.

Advocates for disabled people and those who care for them said they were insulted by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s allegations that the programs are "rife with fraud."

The undervaluing of HCBS demeans the very real, complex, and difficult work that caregivers—whether paid or unpaid—provide.

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The Idaho Legislature’s plans to cut nearly $22 million from Medicaid disability services hit a road block Monday.Now, lawmakers are working behind the scenes to find a path forward on making…

The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

State Medicaid budgets will be reduced by a total of $665 billion over the next decade, after President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act cuts federal investment in the health insurance…

The Trump administration wants deep funding cuts for state-based legal services for disabled people, as rights advocates say the Justice Department pushed out many of its lawyers who worked on such…

States facing budget shortfalls have begun cutting Medicaid reimbursements for services. In some cases, they're targeting therapies that many families of people with autism say are essential.

Gov. Tim Walz’s administration, which is trying to rein in a fraud crisis in Minnesota safety net programs while also managing an incendiary conflict with the White House, is about to face new scrutin...