This is part of the D.C.’s government’s five-year plan to reform its Medicaid program. But some worry the changes will negatively impact low-income and elderly patients during the pandemic.

About 28,000 of the District’s residents are beneficiaries of Medicaid-funded mental health services at a collective cost of $285,000 per day. The Department of Health Care Finance will reimburse providers once the shutdown ends, but in the meantime they’ll have to cover services on their own.

Over the past few years, the District has illegally dropped hundreds of elderly and disabled individuals from a medicaid program that provides in-home health care to those who depend on it.

And here’s your Friday news dump: The Post reports that the human resources director of the District’s Department of Health Care Finance has been fired from the agency in a nepotism probe:

During an appearance on NewsTalk with Bruce DePuyt this morning, disgraced former city employee and mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown lashed out at the Gray administration over his firing, which was announced last week after Brown was escorted out of the Department of Health Care Finance’s offices by security.