Surviving Medicaid Waiver Redeterminations

Nov. 13, 2025

10 AM – 12:30 NOON

Registration Fees

Member: Free Non-Member: $50

Location: Virtual

Medicaid Waiver redeterminations have become one of the greatest challenges for people who receive DDA-funded services and the programs that support them. For some, redeterminations have become a threat to their continuing services.

This training explains:

1. The purpose of Medicaid Waiver annual redetermination
2. How they are supposed to work
3. How they are working (or not working) in practice
4. The most common problems and how to troubleshoot them
5. How to get help resolving problems with redeterminations
6. Some recommendations to improve the redetermination process

Facilitator: Michael Dalto is a big, old benefits geek. He has delivered presentations on benefits and work incentives to thousands of people with disabilities, family members, and professionals since 1989. He created state certification for Maryland benefits counselors and provided training and technical assistance for the certification. He oversaw benefits counseling for the PROMISE project, a research grant that served youths who receive SSI and their families. He also consulted with the Institute for Community Inclusion of the University of Massachusetts Boston on the SGA Project, a research effort that tested interventions to support vocational rehabilitation consumers in Kentucky and Minnesota to work their way off Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. He has written training materials about benefits and provided technical assistance to Virginia Commonwealth University’s National Training and Data Center. He now consults with Cornell University and the National Association of Blind Merchants.