Making Managed Care ‘Work’ In I/DD 

A few weeks ago, the Institute for Exceptional Care (IEC), released the National Roadmap For Disability-Inclusive Healthcare. The focus of the roadmap is to improve health care for consumers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) by giving clinicians the skills to care for these consumers.    

Not surprisingly, people with disabilities are more likely than the general population to have unmet health care needs, receive lower quality health care, and fewer preventative services—with 25% of adults with a disability not having a primary care professional and 20% not having a routine checkup within the past year (see Persons . . .