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Administrative Service Organization (ASO) Role andLessons Learned in Managing a State’s Service System
Kathy Enerlich, Executive Director
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Challenges of rapid, large-scale system transformation impacting leadership, the provider community and families.
Lessons learned and strategies for system of care integration for individuals with developmental disabilities and co-occurring mental illness.
Objectives
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Quick Look - Who We Are
PerformCare is a full-service managed behavioral health care organization (MBHO) that supports individuals and providers through programs in both the public and private sectors.
Founded in 1994 by a group of leading behavioral health providers, PerformCare is a member of the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, one of the largest Medicaid managed care organizations in the United States.
PerformCare is NCQA Accredited.
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PerformCare NJ
As the Administrative Service Organization (ASO) for the State of
New Jersey's Division of Children's System of Care (CSOC) since 2009,
PerformCare New Jersey utilizes significant expertise and integrated
technologies to register, authorize, and coordinate services for
children, youth, and young adults who are experiencing emotional
and behavioral challenges, are developmentally and intellectually
disabled or need certain substance use treatment services.
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Who is integrated?
The NJ Children’s System of Care serves:
Behavioral health: Youth with moderate to severe needs, entire NJ population (over 45,000 youth in the last fiscal year).
Child welfare: Youth with child welfare involvement and a treatment need.
Developmental disabilities: Youth eligible for services based on regulatory definition of functional impairment (over 17,000 youth).
Substance use: Youth who are underinsured and have a treatment need (1143).
Housing: Young adults experiencing homelessness (573).
Historical Perspective*
1999NJ wins a federal system of care grant that allowed NJ to develop a system of care.
2001NJ restructures the funding system that serves children. Through Medicaid and the contracted system administrator, children no longer need to enter the child welfare system to receive behavioral health care services.
2006The Department of Children and Families (DCF) becomes the first cabinet-level department exclusively dedicated to children and families [P.L. 2006, Chapter 47].
2007 – 2012The number of youth in out-of-state behavioral health care goes from more than 300 to three.*
July 2012Intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD) services for youth and young adults under age 21 is transitioned from the Department of Human Services (DHS) Division of Developmental Disabilities to the DCF Children’s System of Care (CSOC).
May 2013Unification of care management, under CMO, is completed statewide.
July 2013Substance use treatment services for youth under age 18 is transitioned from DHS, Division of Mental Health and Addiction Services, to DCF/CSOC.
*How did NJ do this? Careful individualized planning and the development of in-state options (based on research about what kids need) using resources that were previously going out of state.
*Source-State of NJ Division of Children’s System of Care PowerPoint
December 2014Behavioral Health Home Pilot
2005Closed StatePsychiatric HospitalFor Children
System Foundation
Outcome Based
Strengths Based
Unconditional Care
Promoting Independence
Needs Driven
Family Involvement
Collaborative
Cost Effective
Comprehensive
Accessible
Individualized
Home, School & Community Based
Team Based
Child Centered & Family DrivenCommunity Based
Culturally Competent
At home Successfully living with their families and reducing the need for out-of-home treatment settings.
At schoolSuccessfully attending the least restrictive and most appropriate school setting close to home.
In the communitySuccessfully participating in the community and becoming independent, productive and law-abiding citizens.
System of Care Vision*
To help youth succeed…
*Source: NJ Division of Children’s System of Care slide
The ASO’s Role as a Partner with the State
Role of State Role of PerformCareVision/policy for system of care Access to Care: 24/7/365 single point of contact
for families
Setting data collection priorities
Using data to refine service array
Developing/enhancing electronic medical record
Data collection, reporting and trending
Contract management and service line manager Provider training, communication, technical support
Rate setting, new services (via notice of funds availability), funding priorities
Leverage braided and blended funding streams to maximize services and availability of Federal Funding Participation (FFP)
Defining new service and population rules, requirements, and criteria, ensuring compliance with statutes and regulations
Rapidly implementation ensuring capacity for new services/populations
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Reasons for Integration of Developmental Disability Services*
“Synchronized service coordination and elimination of duplicate services.
Support sustainable communities and balanced resource coordination.
Bring all children’s services into a single department.
Further current progress and achievement of strategic objectives of the Department of Children and Families.”
Source: NJ Division of Children’s System of Care slide
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State Leadership Challenges
How do you handle uncertainty, ambiguity and rapid change?
Workforce competencies
Reexamination of service models: not merely managing but transformation treatment.
Shifting certain responsibility from a state entity to ASO.
Policy makers faced with no new dollars
Building an accountable oversight structure
Building a fair, equitable service model to access services based on level of need.
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State Leadership Strategies
Understand and communicate the vision of where you are going. Recall the vision when things get murky.
Be transparent to all system partners - families, providers, staff and state, giving current status and acknowledging challenges.
Provide comprehensive training to system providers perhaps through a university contract.
Share and report progress regularly.
Develop partnerships with family, and with advocacy and provider groups and organizations.
Be flexible and acknowledge what you don’t know yet.
Know who is responsible for what messaging.
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Provider Challenges
Looking to a new entity for solutions (ASO)
How can you organization provide greater value?(strength-based treatment, access to care, quality standards, outcomes and cost effectiveness)
Processes for budgeting and monitoring of revenues
Use or interact with a new IT platform (foundation for data collection)
Provide improved access
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Provider Strategies
Accountable oversight structure that defines and monitors:
• Organization’s role and position in the market.
• Staff productivity
• Documentation and treatment planning – and progress against
identified goals (quality standards)
• Standardize process for client flow from initial request
• Project revenues, deficiencies, surplus, break-even
• Understand program utilization and if you are meeting utilization
benchmarks – data driven performance.
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Data Challenges
Agreeing up front on what really matters.
Common definitions are needed to crosswalk definitions and data sets.
Technical questions: how do we get the file?
Privacy concerns: who owns the data, and what can be seen or shared?
Setting priorities for “Day 1” reports.
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Data Strategies
Get the right people in the room: content experts, decision makers (all sides), data analysts and IT.
Recognize that “the perfect is the enemy of the good.” Having some kind of data decision points early is critical – then fine tune.
Need for specialized data collection: expanded modules for CANS tools, Level of Care Indicator (LOCI) and custom family support application.
Build reporting functions to capture discrete data for service penetration and utilization, and track braided funding of unique youth populations.
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Family Engagement
Address system change and worries early on with families
• Behavioral health: will the system forget about us?
• Developmental disabilities: do you really understand what we need?
• Substance abuse: will it be more difficult to access services?
Establish stakeholder groups
• State-stakeholder group.
• ASO-family leader group.
Be in front of families frequently
Where are we now?
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Intellectual and developmental disabilities with dual mental health diagnoses 1915(c)-like pilot program
The primary goal of the DD/MI program is to provide a safe, stable and therapeutically supportive environment in the community for children and young adults with significantly challenging behavior needs.
• ensure the safety of the child or young adult and all participating staff by providing individual specific training and on- site technical supports;
• decrease elopement risk and safeguard the environment by providing one-time funds to ensure safety;
• keep families united by placing the child or young adult in close proximity to the individual’s family or guardian in the least restrictive setting;
• reunite the child or young adult with the family whenever possible
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New Services for DD/MI Youth
Under the Pilot the DD/MI youth can receive these new services:
Case/Care Management Individual SupportsNatural Support Training Intensive In-Community (II-C) HabilitationRespiteNon-Medical TransportationInterpreter Services
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Intensive In-Home Services
Intensive In-Home (IIH) services specifically Behavioral Interventions
and Clinical Therapeutics were designed and are being implemented.
Our role in the design impacted the treatment plan - allows users to
input clinical information such as the youth’s Needs and Strengths,
as well as Strategies, Techniques and Barriers to treatment. The user
can see all the associated information at once.
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Optimally Managed Through Innovative Solutions
Family Support Services Application - ensures resources are prioritized to families with greatest needs.
Family Portal - electronic eligibility application reduces family burden and increases operational efficiencies.
DD Eligibility Average Decision Time - Reduced from 195 days to 49 days with improved information for families through clinical and administrative processes.
Restructured Electronic Record & Consent Process - for exchange of substance abuse information in compliance with 42 CFR-Part 2.
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Assessing Family Support Service Needs (Respite)
Use of a standard tool that:
Assesses capability of the family to care for the youth
Identifies special needs of the youth requiring care
Considers individual family factors
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Family Support Services Application for DD Eligible Youth
Single point of access for Family Support Services that consist primarily of respite services & assistive technology.
Assesses the caregiver’s ability to support the youth in the community.
Scored based upon severity of needs of the youth, caregiver, and family.
Challenged to increase the number of families receiving FSS and number of new families without increasing costs.
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Family Support Services Summary of Aggregate Assessments
From January 1 to September 30, 2014 a total of N=3,358 FSS applications for services were received.
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DD/ID Youth Authorized Mobile Response
23% - diagnoses with moderate-severe medical disability
57% - had a prior MRSS dispatch within prior 12 months
83% - caretakers reported aggression requiring Mobile Response
50% - families cited school or afterschool difficulties as main problem
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Outcome of Mobile Response
100% resulted in de-escalation of harmful, disruptive behaviors
Families reported services were helpful & beneficial
Families became aware of other resources & how to access them
Mobile Response consistently made collateral contacts with youth’s treating providers or agencies involved to communicate needs & coordinate service delivery
60% referred to the Care Management Organization for ongoing care management
Expanding Services While Keeping Down Costs
As youth with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities were added to the population served by PerformCare, we linked them to needed family support services without raising costs – providing more efficiency to the system, and better distributing care.
In 2014 PerformCare estimates that some
10,000 BH services will be authorized for DD
youth.
DDYouth DD Youth with BH Services Cost Per Youth0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
7000
3839
1021
5034
4,582
1,813
4,216
5210
1562
3078
5838
31243309
2012
2013
2014
2014 (Pro-jected)
Questions?