Open Letter to the Indiana FSSA Communications Director
Wednesday May 13
Dear Mr. Barlow,
I am writing to you today not as a disgruntled constituent, but as a Senior Data Engineer and public advocacy project.
My automated monitoring systems have flagged a high-risk transparency gap within the FSSA’s public-facing data silos. Specifically, the following reporting failures are currently active:
Financial Reporting Blackout: The "Monthly Medicaid Financial Reporting" portal has ceased all updates since January 2026.
Enrollment Data Suppression: The "Medicaid Monthly Enrollment Reports" have deliberately withheld April 2026 data—the exact month the BT202627 service caps went into effect.
Digital Barrier to Justice: The primary fair hearing instruction portal (in.gov/fssa/1032.html) has been 404ed, coinciding with a self-reported "scanning backlog" that is currently preventing the docketing of Medicaid appeals.
As a Marine Corps veteran, I find the "lip service" being paid to our families, while simultaneously engineering a budget surplus through administrative churn, to be a significant breach of the public trust.
We are seeking a formal statement regarding the following:
Why has the FSSA ceased all public-facing financial transparency during a period of record-high service denials?
When will the April 2026 Enrollment Data be released to show the impact of the new service caps?
How does the FSSA justify a $150M+ surplus while failing to maintain the basic digital infrastructure (404 errors) required for families to exercise their 14th Amendment rights?
Please be advised that we have already secured a Federal FOIA Confirmation (#2909696) with the CMS for the T-MSIS and CMS-64 data feeds to bridge the transparency gap your office has created.
We would like to include your office's explanation in our upcoming public dashboard and media briefing. We will also notate the FSSA silence as well should the FSSA choose to ignore this request.
Semper Fidelis,
Matthew Colley
** As of 6/14/26 no reply has been received from the FSSA **
