State of Rhode Island HHS

On May 28, 2022 the United States executed a settlement agreement with the State of Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services under Title II of the ADA to resolve its alleged discrimination against a child with autism by failing to provide child with community-based Medicaid services, causing the child to enter an out-of-state residential facility for several months.  The settlement agreement requires Rhode Island to make changes to provide this child and other children with intellectual and developmental disabilities the community-based services they need at home, and pay the child $75,000 in damages.

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