(Cross-posted from the COFAR blog) One of the costs of closing developmental centers for the intellectually disabled, which rarely gets considered in budgetary "savings" analyses, is the cost to affected communities in lost economic … [Read more...]
Gov. Patrick should look at contractors’ salaries too
There are hundreds of these companies that contract with agencies in the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and the salaries of the executives running them are often above $100,000 as well. In 2009, we looked … [Read more...]
Update: We just received some cost records from DDS…but
As we suspected would be the case, the documents indicate that many important costs of community-based care were left out of the administration’s analysis. And, as we’ll explain below, at least part of the analysis is based on … [Read more...]
We’re still waiting for the administration’s cost records
Lest you think our request was overly broad, we offered last month to narrow it to a request for documents primarily supporting a specific projection in the administration's analysis that it would cost $150,000 per … [Read more...]
Credibility on the cost of DDS care — an update
The administration's cost analysis in shutting the Monson, Templeton, and Glavin developmental centers was submitted in July to the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees and to the Joint Committee on Children, Families, and Persons … [Read more...]