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APD Announces iBudget ScheduleThe Agency for Persons with Disabilities (APD) today announced its statewide implementation schedule for iBudget Florida. iBudget Florida is a new way to deliver Medicaid waiver services that has been approved by both the Florida Legislature and the federal government.Simultaneously with iBudget Florida, APD is rolling out its customer central record online system throughout the state. This new system reduces paperwork for APD providers so they may focus more on serving the customer. APD annually serves more than 50,000 Floridians with developmental disabilities of autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, intellectual disabilities, spina bifida, and Prader-Willi syndrome. The agency’s Medicaid waiver supports about 30,000 Floridians with developmental disabilities so they may live and participate in their local community. Those 30,000 people will all transition to iBudget Florida over the next 10 months. The schedule will begin in the northern part of the state.Customers living in Escambia, Santa , Okaloosa, Walton, Bay, Gulf, Calhoun, , Washington, Holmes, lin, Leon, Wakulla, Gadsden, Liberty, Madison, , and Jefferson counties will beginreceiving information about iBudget Florida in a few weeks to begin the transition so they will be controlling their personal waiver budgets starting October 1. This phase will cover 3,261 individuals.The second phase of iBudget Florida is scheduled to begin December 1. It will affect 7,745 customers in Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Hardee, Highlands, Polk, De Soto, Hillsborough, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, and Sarasota counties.The third phase will start on February 1, 2012, affecting 9,454 customers in Palm Beach, Broward, Dade, Monroe, Indian River, , Okeechobee, and St. Lucie counties.

The final phase is scheduled to be implemented on April 1, 2012, covering 9,490 customers in Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Putnam, Suwannee, Union, Baker,Duval, St. s, Nassau, Brevard, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Flagler, Volusia, Citrus, Hernando, Lake, n, and Sumter counties.As more information becomes available about iBudget, it will be posted on the agency’s website at APDcares.org. iBudget Florida is designed to make the funding process fair and equitable for all Medicaid waiver customers. It will provide for more opportunities for customers to direct their own care. The new systemwill also allow the agency to have more financial predictability. Some of the customer benefits of iBudget are: · Greater ability to choose services that matter to them, given their unique situations. · Greater flexibility for customers to respond to changing needs. · Reduced bureaucracy and “red tape.†· Support coordinators freed from paperwork to focus on providing help that makes an even greater difference. · Confidence that funding is fair compared to other customers who are similarly situated. · Reduced likelihood of policy changes that cause significant disruption due to budget deficits. · Security of a financially stable system that will be there to serve customers down the road. · Greater control over their lives._________________________________________

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