Questions For Consumers With Disabilities (& Their Advocates) In The Move To Managed Care

On Tuesday, we heard from our team about the implications for provider management teams of the move to using managed care models to serve consumers with disabilities: More Managed Care For Consumers With Disabilities, More Management Challenges. That article focused on how the State of Texas is moving ahead with new initiative to move adults with intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD) to managed care (see I/DD Reimbursement Changes Bring New Management Challenges).

But my new colleague, OPEN MINDS Senior Associate Ernest VanDeusen, offered some perspective on what consumers and their advocates should look for to assure that these systems . . .