Snort-worthy: NYS makes EI providers prove financial hardship before they will pay.
Here is some follow-up information for parents who are wondering why their children are on a waiting list for the NY State Early Intervention Program. As indicated in earlier posts, there are fewer providers available to deliver services because many have left the early intervention system. The program has directly contributed to a systematic destruction of small businesses operated by therapy providers around the state. Those who remain are large agencies who are now beginning to be cash-strapped and others who happen to have a level of uncommon/savvy navigation skills that allows them to operate amidst the NY State-generated chaos. Most early intervention providers have not seen payments since mid to late March and based on current projections they are only now beginning to trickle out partial payments for services that were delivered in the beginning of April. If you read through the blog you will find a series of entries describing the disastrous implement...