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Memo on Cost Plan Rebasing

MEMORANDUM

DATE: December 4, 2008

TO: Interested Media

FROM: Mowry Etters, Communications Director

RE: Cost Plan Rebasing

The Agency for Persons with Disabilities is temporarily halting

implementation of its adjustment of Medicaid waiver recipients’ cost

plans known as rebasing, scheduled to begin January 1, 2009. If

necessary, a revised timeline for implementation will be determined

after inconsistencies in expenditure data are resolved. The

inconsistencies have been identified and work has begun to resolve

them. In the interim, customer cost plans will not be reduced due to

cost-rebasing adjustment.

The expenditure data information comes from the Florida

Medicaid Management Information System (FMMIS) operated by the Agency

for Health Care Administration. APD and AHCA are working to resolve

the data issues as soon as possible. When the agencies are confident

the data is accurate, APD will resume implementation of the cost plan

rebasing.

In the 2008 Legislative Session, the Legislature approved an

adjustment to individual cost plans to reflect actual dollars spent

plus 5 percent or the person’s current cost plan, whichever is less.

Many times an APD customer’s cost plan is approved for more services

than are actually used. The Legislature voted to eliminate the unused

services from cost plans as a method to control future spending.

APD annually serves about 35,000 Floridians with the

developmental disabilities of mental retardation, autism, cerebral

palsy, spina bifida, and Prader-Willi syndrome. For more information

on the agency, call 1-866-APD-CARES or visit www.apdcares.org

If you have any questions or need additional information,

please call the Agency for Persons with Disabilities communications

office at .

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