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Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.
Resource Paper
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Disability Care Coordination Organizations ? The Experience of Medicaid Managed Care Programs for People with Disabilities ______________________________
Susan E. Palsbo Center for Health & Disability Research National Rehabilitation Hospital* (now at the College of Health & Human Services, George Mason University)
Margaret F. Mastal Delmarva Foundation for Medical Care
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Funded by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Medicaid Managed Care Program.
April 2006
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Table of Contents
I. Executive Summary ___________________________________________ 3 Findings __________________________________________________ 3 Outcomes ________________________________________________ 5 Recommendations for States________________________________ 5
II. Introduction _________________________________________________ 6 Methods__________________________________________________ 6 Program Descriptions ______________________________________ 7 ACCESS II Care of Western NC, Asheville, North Carolina ___ 7 AXIS Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota _________________ 9 Commonwealth Care Alliance, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts _ 12 Independence Care System, New York City, New York _____ 15 Vermont Medical Home Project, Montpelier & Burlington, Vermont ___________________________________ 18 Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) ___________________ 21 Community Health Partnership, Eau Claire, Wisconsin______ 21 Community Living Alliance, Madison, Wisconsin ___________ 24
III. Findings ____________________________________________________ 27 Participants; Characteristics ________________________________ 28 Benefits and Services _____________________________________ 28 Care Coordination Process ________________________________ 29 Organizational Structure___________________________________ 31 Staffing Configuration_____________________________________ 33 Titles _________________________________________________ 34 Team Models of Service Coordination____________________ 34 Advanced Practice Nurses ______________________________ 35 Mental Health Services _________________________________ 35 Information Management for Quality Improvement and Care Coordination Activities ____________________________________ 36 Quality Management and Outcomes ________________________ 37 Finances _________________________________________________ 38 Origins/Catalysts _________________________________________ 40 Governance______________________________________________ 42
IV. Outcomes and Recommendations _____________________________ 44 Finance and Utilization ____________________________________ 44 Quality of Life _________________________________________ 44 Satisfaction ___________________________________________ 45 Clinical Results ________________________________________ 46 Recommendations for States_______________________________ 46
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Table of Acronyms
APN = advance nurse practitioner (a nurse licensed to provide some medical care and write prescriptions)
AXIS = AXIS Healthcare (located in Minneapolis. AXIS is not an acronym, but is always uppercase)
BSN =
bachelor of science in nursing (an RN with two more years of college training)
CCA = Commonwealth Care Alliance (private corporation in Massachusetts that contracts with Massachusetts
Medicaid)
DCCO = Disability Care Coordination Organization
CHG = Community Healthcare Group (group practice of physicians located at the Brightwood Health Center
in Springfield, Massachusetts)
CHP = Community Health Partners (holds a WPP contract for Medicaid elderly and disabled in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin)
CIL =
Centers for Independent Living (funded by the U.S. Department of Education to help people with
disabilities live independently)
CLA = Community Living Alliance (holds a WPP contract for Medicaid disabled in Madison, Wisconsin)
CMA = certified medical assistant
CMS = Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (federal agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid)
CPT = current procedural terminology (unique, 5 digit codes copyrighted by the American Medical
Association, assigned to every medical procedure)
CSHCN = children with special health care needs
DME = durable medical equipment
FTE =
full time equivalent
HMO = health maintenance organization
ICS =
Independence Care System (partially capitated managed care program in New York City)
ISP =
individual service plan (used by all DCCOs to operationalize person-centered care)
IT =
information technology
MCO = managed care organization
MDHS = Minnesota Department of Human Services (Minnesota's Medicaid agency)
MnDHO = Minnesota Disability Health Options (demonstration managed care program funded by Minnesota
Medicaid targeted to people with disabilities)
MIS =
management information system
OASIS = Outcome and Assessment Information Set data set that CMS uses in home health agencies to monitor
quality
OT =
occupational therapist
OVHA = Office of Vermont Health Access (Vermont's state Medicaid agency)
PACE = Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (a Medicare/Medicare program that allows frail elderly
needing skilled nursing services to receive those services in the community instead of a nursing home)
PCA = personal care assistant (provides non-medical services in a person's home)
PCCM = primary care case management
PCPM = primary care population management (North Carolina's approach)
PT =
physical therapist
PLA = personal living assistant (provides non-medical services in a person's home)
QI =
quality improvement
RN =
registered nurse (a two-year degree)
SCO = Senior Care Options (demonstration managed care program funded by Massachusetts Medicaid and
CMS, targeted to elderly)
SPMI = severe and persistent mental illness
WNC = Western North Carolina (generally, the mountainous part of the state)
WPP = Wisconsin Partnership Program (demonstration managed care program funded by Wisconsin Medicaid
targeted to elderly and people with disabilities)
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I. Executive Summary
One of the greatest challenges facing every state Medicaid program is devising an appropriate and effective delivery system for its most resource-intensive beneficiaries. Children and adults with disabilities consume a disproportionately high quantity of Medicaid services, and their annual costs are increasing at the highest rate of all beneficiary groups.
One way for states to make their Medicaid expenses more predictable is capitation. Most states have turned to fully or partially capitated arrangements for Medicaid beneficiaries, and today, approximately 80 percent of beneficiaries are in capitated programs. Disabled beneficiaries are usually exempted from capitation and managed care because of fears of under-treatment, restricted access to services and providers, and poor quality.
Bucking this trend are several pilot programs. Most of them have strong roots in working with people with disabilities. The programs are taking the best attributes of managed care and reconfiguring them to improve the lives of Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities. We visited seven pilot programs during 2004. This paper synthesizes the programs' key components and describes the challenges they face in documenting their effectiveness to advocates and regulatory agencies. A companion paper presents a strategy to report comparative measures of program outcomes.
Findings
Following are our key findings:
Findings on Mission
? The primary mission of each program is to coordinate publicly funded medical and social services. They blend attributes of social services agencies and health care agencies. We refer to these new entities as: Disability Care Coordination Organizations (DCCOs).
Findings on Scope of Coordinated Services
? Medicaid beneficiaries in DCCOs have most or all of their benefits coordinated by the DCCO.
? DCCOs targeting people with physical disabilities coordinate DME, transportation, and personal care assistance; they may also provide non-Medicaid supplements to these services (e.g., in-home wheelchair repair).
? Capitated DCCOs offer supplemental benefits, funded out of cost savings. ? PCCM and fee-for-service models are unable to offer supplemental benefits.
Findings on Care Coordination Process and Key Functions
? Engage participants in writing a self-directed, patient-centered plan of care. ? Collaborate with other agencies, providers, and vendors to meet participants' needs. ? Organize and disseminate information across all agencies and providers.
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? Communicate proactively with each participant on a regular basis, timed to meet participants' needs.
? Attend clinical visits when needed. ? Available to participants 24/7.
Findings on Organizational Structure
? Organizational structures range from being a specialty service provider to a full-fledged HMO.
? The DCCO is a flexible, robust approach to support independent living in the community, and person-centered and consumer-directed care, across a variety of disabling conditions.
? Care coordination models reflect the community environment and populace they serve. ? Three "core competencies" are: service coordination, patient education, and quality
improvement.
Findings on Staffing Configuration
? Caseloads range from 20-75 participants per care coordinator. ? Some DCCOs stratify their participants by resource need to distribute the coordination
burden equitably across the coordinator structure. ? Most DCCOs invest significant time and resources to develop productive teams and
interdisciplinary cognizance between nurses and social workers. ? DCCOs using combined nurse-social worker teams house the teams at the corporate
office, providing dedicated physical space for each team. ? DCCOs embedding nurse coordinators in physician offices link them with the expertise
of social workers. ? DCCOs in states with advanced practice nurses are evolving models that best utilize their
education and training in the comprehensive care coordination process. ? DCCOs targeting persons with physical disabilities must address mental health issues and
develop expertise among care coordinators for dealing with these concerns.
Findings on Information Systems
? DCCOs are internally developing separate and distinct information management systems for the care coordination of their complex populations.
? Extensive relational databases are needed for effective care coordination of complex populations.
Findings on Quality Management
? There are few shared measures across DCCOs, partly because they target different types of disability clusters.
? The sophistication of quality measurement and reporting (number of measures, process to select measures, input of data to create measures) varies widely across sites.
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