Minnesota Medicaid Waivers: CADI, DD & $6.8B Spending

Author: Minnesota Medicaid Transparency Project | Last updated: March 7, 2026

30% of Minnesota's Medicaid budget flows through 7 federal waivers — CADI, DD, Elderly, Brain Injury. Spending trends and oversight risk.

Medicaid Waiver Programs

Nearly 30% of Minnesota's Medicaid budget flows through 7 federal waivers providing home and community-based services (HCBS). These include CADI, DD, Elderly, Brain Injury, and other specialty waivers.

Minnesota Medicaid waiver programs
Waiver	Enrollment	Spending
Brain Injury (BI) Waiver	0	$0
Community Alternative Care (CAC) Waiver	0	$0
Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI) Waiver	0	$0
Developmental Disabilities (DD) Waiver	0	$0
Elderly Waiver (EW)	0	$0
Special Needs BasicCare (SNBC)	0	$0
Alternative Care (AC) Program	0	$0

Part of the Minnesota Medicaid Transparency Project — an independent, data-driven investigation of $23 billion in annual Medicaid spending across 87 counties.

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