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Senate panel weighs who should pay accreditation costs for developmental-disability providers
Summary
Members of the Senate Human Services Committee questioned Department of Health and Human Services officials about accreditation costs, past reimbursements and whether to include accreditation in provider rates or fund it through grants in Senate Bill 2192.
Senate Human Services Committee members pressed Department of Health and Human Services officials on the cost and payment options for accreditation of developmental-disability (DD) service providers as they discussed Senate Bill 2192 on accreditations.
The committee heard from Tina Bay, director of the Developmental Disabilities Section at the Department of Health and Human Services, who gave a brief history of state support for accreditation and cost estimates. "In 2019, we had $492,000 in the DD section budget to cover accreditation," Bay said, adding that the Legislature provided "approximately $324,000" for the 2021–23 biennium and that "in the 2023 biennium, nothing was appropriated for accreditation." Bay also told senators that the Council on Quality and Leadership (CQL) charges "around that $20,000 to $30,000" per accreditation, with additional travel-related expense varying by agency size.
Committee members raised two recurring policy questions: whether the state should continue to pay accreditation fees and,…
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