272900 What's in it for us?? Possibilities, Perils, and Strategies for People with Disabilities in the Duals Demonstration

Monday, October 29, 2012 : 9:03 AM - 9:17 AM

Mary Lou Breslin, MA , Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, Berkeley, CA
     
At the state and national level, people with disabilities have been actively involved in shaping ACA-related community living support initiatives, including the duals demonstration. The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF) has a long history of helping to develop, monitor, and disseminate information about evolving medical, behavioral, and long term support financing and care delivery strategies that impact people with disabilities across the country. This talk will focus on the development of national principles to inform advocacy across the country and the implication of those principles in the critical issues of system development, particularly in the duals demonstration. Among those issues are: network readiness and adequacy, specialty provider and service access to serve and accommodate people with complex conditions and impairments; structural interfaces and alternative models for building the interface between medical, behavioral and long term supports; and effective strategies for consumer involvement and monitoring of system development and outcomes. Critical research opportunities and needs will also be referenced.

Learning Areas:
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
Discuss critical duals demonstration and other community living advocacy concerns and strategies for people with disabilities. Identify service and provider network, access, quality, choice, and monitoring concerns in the development of dual demonstration proposals.

Keywords: Consumer Rights, Disability

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have over 30 years of working to shape federal, state, and local disability related public policy, including litigated, regulatory, administrative, and statutory strategies. Community living alternatives and supports have always been a major part of the focus of my work. Most recently, as Senior Policy Advisor for DREDF, I have been focusing on integrated care and financing strategies for community living support, including the duals demonstration that will be the focus of this session.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 3028.1: New frontiers in community living for people with disabilities: National perspectives about the CMS demonstration project for younger Medicaid / Medicare dually eligible beneficiaries