Indiana Medicaid Administrators Must Stop Balancing the State’s Budget on the Backs of Neurodivergent Hoosiers

Indiana Medicaid Administrators are proposing capping reimbursements to benefits for Applied Behavioral Analysis services leaving families of neurodivergent Hoosiers on the edge. 

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Indiana Capital Chronicle reported on January 13, 2025 that Medicaid administrators in Indiana are proposing capping up to three years of reimbursement for Applied Behavioral Analysis services.  Americans for Autism Advocacy issues the following comment:

“Families of neurodivergent Hoosiers should not be made as sacrificial lambs when administrators of Indiana’s Medicaid program cannot properly balance its own budget.  Applied behavioral analysis is a proven treatment.  Numerous low -income and middle-class Hoosiers with neurodivergent children rely on state-run programs like Medicaid to pay for the costs of ABA treatment.  Governor Eric Holcomb earned well deserved scrutiny and protest after proposing to cut Medicaid reimbursements for ABA providers in 2024.  Members of the Indiana General Assembly need to find other areas of the state’s budget to cut true fraud and waste before balancing it on the backs of neurodivergent Hoosiers.”