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

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.