Budget cuts and restructuring at agencies like CDC and NIH are weakening the nation’s health infrastructure. Learn how these changes impact public health, research, and safety.
New York’s OPWDD has awarded contracts to eight providers to deliver assistive technologies and supports that promote independence for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Florida’s SMMC 3.0 program places a strong emphasis on value-based purchasing, rewarding providers for quality and cost-effective care. This shift is central to improving outcomes and ensuring Medicaid recipients receive better, more coordinated services.
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Florida’s Medicaid program has introduced a pilot initiative transitioning waiver services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to managed care in two regions.
Learn how AI is transforming healthcare for the IDD community, offering benefits like personalized care while facing challenges like bias and lack of accurate disability data.
Discover how Florida’s Medicaid Managed Care Pilot Program for individuals with IDD aims to improve health outcomes through personalized care plans, integrated services, and continuous monitoring
Explore how Florida’s innovative Medicaid Managed Care pilot program aims to reshape healthcare for individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities IDD, offering insights into the potential benefits and challenges of this transformative approach.
Florida Medicaid announces a tentative decision to award Florida Community Care a contract to test managed care for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, marking a potential shift in care delivery.
Through National Quality Indicators and LTSS-focused training programs, the IDD and LTSS sectors are getting a boost from value-based payments
Four Pillars to Build On in a VBP Environment THE VBP Blog [1/14/2021] In 2020, we took on the monumental task of evaluating all ten states that offered managed care programs for the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) population. In our final blog of that series, we broke down our findings into four main pillars. These frameworks provided structure across the many different approaches over the ten states. At the end of 2020, we offered our commitments as a company and in this blog we take a look at how those cross over. 4 Pillars of Reviewing Value-Based Care in I/DD Managed Care Time Matters: more than almost any other factor, the states that gave themselves time for a methodical… Read More »The Four Pillars to Build On in a VBP Environment