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DAIL requests $8.6M to implement federally required conflict-free case management
Summary
Department officials said the fiscal 2026 budget includes $8.6 million to separate case management from direct service provision in home- and community-based programs to comply with federal requirements.
Department officials told the House Appropriations Committee on May 20 that a centerpiece of the DAIL fiscal 2026 proposal is funding to implement mandatory conflict-free case management across several programs.
“It’s to separate direct service and case management ultimately because there’s an inherent conflict in that,” Commissioner Dr. Bowen Dilbone said when describing the federal requirement prompting the change.
DAIL said the request totals $8.6 million in Global Commitment (Medicaid waiver) funds in the governor’s budget to fund the transition. The department has finalized an RFP for independent case management providers and said the…
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