Easterseals Crossroads to close Indianapolis outpatient therapy clinic, impacting 300 children with disabilities

INDIANAPOLIS — Easterseals Crossroads, a central Indiana disability services center, will close its outpatient therapy clinic on Sept. 26, leaving 300 children without speech, physical and occupational therapy.

The clinic isn’t financially sustainable, CEO and president David Dreith said.

“For many years, Medicaid reimbursement rates have not kept pace with the rising costs of providing the service,” Dreith said. “The reimbursement rates don’t even cover the salaries of the clinicians we employ. And we were lucky enough to have some surplus that we could fund those gaps in that service need for many years, but we finally reached a point where we just can no longer do so.”

Leticia Brown’s three-year-old son is one of the children losing his therapy. He has autism and attends Easterseals