FRANKFORT, KY (June 15, 2026) – Today, Auditor Allison Ball sent a letter to the Beshear administration to demand that it withdraw yet another decision that will harm some of Kentucky’s most vulnerable citizens.
Right now, Kentucky’s area development districts (ADDs) and community mental health centers (CMHCs) help 15,640 Kentuckians with brain injuries, physical disabilities, and intellectual or developmental disabilities receive high-quality, patient-directed Medicaid services at low cost to Kentucky taxpayers. But Governor Beshear’s Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) wants to hire one, big, expensive corporate vendor to provide these services instead of continuing to work with Kentucky’s ADDs and CMHCs who have been doing this work effectively and efficiently for almost 20 years.
With this decision, Kentuckians will go from receiving responsive, personalized, in-person, low-cost assistance from a fellow Kentuckian to having to go through one, big, impersonal, expensive corporation unfamiliar with Kentucky or Kentuckians and whose true goals for Kentucky’s Medicaid programs are unknown. The Beshear administration’s decision was made without any public input, without a cost-benefit analysis, without a transition plan, without knowing the effect this decision will have on the Kentuckians who need these services, and without any evidence that this is a federally or state required or wise decision.
Especially in light of the Beshear administration’s recent cuts to public programs, this decision makes no sense and will prevent Kentuckians from getting the Medicaid services they need. That is why Auditor Ball is joining with Kentucky’s ADDs and CMHCs to demand that the Beshear administration continue to work with them to provide high quality Medicaid services at low cost to Kentucky taxpayers instead of allowing one, big, expensive corporate vendor to irreparably harm Kentucky’s most vulnerable.
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