An estimated 4.5% of the Kansans waiting on a list for intellectual and disability services are dead, the state's Medicaid inspector general reports.
"We have dead people on the wait list," Steve Anderson told lawmakers on the Medicaid oversight committee last week while briefing them on his work.
"We're trying to get some of that cleaned up and we're looking at that very carefully," he said.
There are a little more than 4,900 individuals on the IDD waiver waiting list, meaning that roughly 220 people died waiting for services based on the inspector general's . . .
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