Washington Medicaid To Pilot Intensive Residential Teams For People With I/DD

The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is creating a pilot program to provide intensive residential teams for consumers with I/DD. To do this, the state is seeking a contractor for the pilot to provide a specialized Intensive Residential Team (IRT) that will work exclusively with people with co-occurring mental health and intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD). The team will work with people enrolled in the Developmental Disability Administration (DDA) system of care, and people with the co-occurring diagnosis of mental health and I/DD living in a facility licensed by the state Aging and Long Term . . .