EIDBI, early intensive autism services

2018-01-01 · program · g-eidbi

Source: Cato Institute · original.

Root source: https://www.cato.org/blog/autism-therapy-gold-rush

What it establishes: $6.1M (2018) to $443M (2025). Cato, 'The Autism Therapy Gold Rush' (Apr 2, 2026): Minnesota EIDBI recipients grew from 400 to 5,705 between 2018 and 2024, a 1,326 percent increase.

Context

← related The 14 high-risk Medicaid programs
← related Autism providers and the new licensure requirement: 6 of 500, then 433 of 481

$18Bbilled by the 14 high-risk programs since 2018, per the CMS pull Thompson read

half or moreThompson's reading of that file, December 18, 2025

$1.51B → $4.32Bthe 14 programs, 2018 to 2025

$6.1M → $443Mautism services (EIDBI), 2018 to 2025

~$250Mcharged loss in the meal case; Bock: 500 months, $243M restitution

64 → 36assistant U.S. attorneys in the Minnesota office

Program spending, millions of dollars. DHS extract via Freedom Foundation of Minnesota (Apr 13, 2026) and Minnesota Reformer (Apr 21, 2026). Blank years were not itemized.

Charged dollars are the floor. The claims file is the measurement. They are different numbers and this site keeps them apart.