Department of Planning and BudgetAn official website of the Commonwealth of Virginia Here's how you knowAn official websiteHere's how you know

Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Medical Assistance Services
 
Board
Board of Medical Assistance Services
 
chapter
Standards Established and Methods Used to Assure High Quality Care [12 VAC 30 ‑ 60]
Action Electronic Visit Verification
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/21/2020
spacer
Previous Comment     Next Comment     Back to List of Comments
3/18/20  7:27 am
Commenter: pew

EVV discriminates against elderly, hispanic, and the poor
 

discriminate against the poor, the disabled, the Hispanic, and the elderly.  Pew reports that https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/06/13/mobile-technology-and-home-broadband-2019/   19% of people living in the USA do not have a smart phones and internet access, 47% of senior adults do not, 21% of the Hispanic, and 29% of the low income.   

EVV discriminates against them...   NO DMAS numerous people couldn't get the smart phones and even if they did they come with limited data, etc...  

 

evv harms 

CommentID: 79836