Some folks completed a
survey concerning the core concepts and the Medicaid/HCBS
statute.
We have tabulated the results,
from -respondents, and determined that, in your collective
judgment, there are three core concepts against which the
Medicaid/HCBS statute should be evaluated.
The three core concepts are
1. Integration
2. Empowerment & Participatory
Decision-Making
3. Individualized &
Appropriate Services
You may be interested in the
distribution of the scores across the 18 core concepts, so we
attach a figure summarizing them.
RANK CORE
CONCEPT SCORE
1
Integration
19
2 Individualized and
Appropriate Services 14
3 Empowerment/Participatory
Decision-Making 14
4. Liberty
(physical) 12
5 Family Centered
Services 11
6 Productivity and
Contribution 11
7
Accountability 11
8
Autonomy 10
9 Capacity Based Services
10
10 Professional and Systems
Capacity 8
11 Protection from Harm
8
12
Anti-discrimination 7
13 Family Unity and Integrity
6
14 Service Coordination and
Collaboration 6
15 Classification
6
16 Privacy and
Confidentiality 5
17 Prevention and
Amelioration 4
18 Cultural
Responsiveness 4
We hope you will now agree to
join us in analyzing the federal statutes authorizing the
Medicaid waiver programs according to the three core concepts
and our unique Computer Assisted Policy Analysis Tool (CAPAT).
We have included, as an
attachment, instructions for conducting the analysis on-line,
and you may begin your analysis at any time by visiting the
CAPAT website at http://www.disabilitycoreconcepts.org/BeachCenter.
The analysis will take 4-5 hours to complete, but can be
conducted in any intervals of time as convenient. In other
words, the website will save any analysis entered and allow
you to come back and resume the analysis where you left off.
We ask that you complete the analysis by Thursday, June 30,
2005.
We thank you for agreeing to
participate in this time-consuming process, and we hope that
you will find your activities with us both informative and
useful. We know that your assistance and feedback will help
keep us on the right track.
If you have any questions, please
feel free to contact any one of us.
Sincerely,
Rud
Turnbull Matt Stowe David Stowe
(785) 864-7610 (785)
864-0596 (785) 864-3992
rud@ku.edu
matstowe@ku.edu
dstowe@ku.edu