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Annual Affiliation Agreements with Qualified Providers of Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services.
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Recommended Action: Approve the agreements and authorize the Chairman to sign.
Background: These agreements serve to affiliate with providers of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (ID/DD) services in Sedgwick County to organizations and individuals that have met Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services (KDADS) and Community Developmental Disability Organization (CDDO) standards. As the CDDO contracting with KDADS for Sedgwick County, these agreements assure that services are provided for eligible individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities.
The agreements with the 47 contractors listed below provide both the ability to bill the Medicaid system directly and to receive payment from Sedgwick County for services that are provided to eligible individuals from January 1, 2014 through August 31, 2014:
Accessible Home Health, Inc.
Advocate Care Services, Inc.
Alpha House, Inc.
Another Day, Inc.
Apple Services, LLC
Arrowhead West, Inc.
Assist, LLC
Catholic Charities, Inc. Adult Day Services
Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas, Inc.
Community Living Opportunities, Inc.
Consumer Directed Services, Inc.
Craig HomeCare
Day by Day Staff Relief Inc. dba Encompass Private Duty of Kansas
Dream Catchers Case Management, INC.
EmberHope, Inc.
Envision
Goodwill Industries of Kansas, Inc.
Heart of Care Agency, LLC
Hearts of Love, LLC
Home Technology Solutions, Inc.
In Sync Home Health Inc.
Independent Guardian LLC
Independent Living Resource Center, Inc.
Individual Advocacy LLC
Interim HealthCare of Wichita, Inc.
Jubilee Designs
KETCH
Life Patterns
Love, Comfort and Care
Medicalodges, Inc., dba, New Hope Services
Paradigm Services, Inc.
Payroll Plus of Kansas, Inc.
People First Employment and Residential Services
Progressive Home Health & Hospice
Rainbows United, Inc.
Res-Care Kansas, Inc., Life Choices
S. E. Enterprises
Starkey, Inc.
Sullivan Gang Care Center
Taylor Drug
TFI Family Services, Inc.
The Arc of Sedgwick County
The Looking Glass
Topeka Independent Living Resource Center
TRUST HomeCare, LLC
United Seating and Mobility, LLC dba Numotion
VSD Services
Wichita Trans4mation
Alternatives: The SCDDO is required to contract with qualified service providers that have been selected by an individual who is eligible to receive intellectual and developmental disability services. All listed providers have been selected as the preferred provider for at least one individual.
Financial Considerations: All listed providers may receive payments directly from Sedgwick County and/or bill Medicaid directly for services provided. Since the ID/DD service system works on a reimbursement basis, funding will not be paid to providers until after the service has been provided and verified.
Participants in the Community Service Capacity Assurance and Crisis Plan receive funding for additional services provided. Four agencies (Arrowhead West, KETCH, ResCare Life Choices and Starkey, Inc.) participate in the plan. The key component to the Community Service Capacity Assurance and Crisis Plan is these providers waive the State requirement of having up to 60 days to begin serving an individual in order to meet an individual's needs in crisis situations.
Legal Considerations: The authority for this action is K.S.A. 39-1805. The agreements have been reviewed by the Sedgwick County Counselor's Office. Approval is by simple majority vote.