State of Minnesota Department of Human Services Disability Services Division Development of a Paymen

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State of MinnesotaDepartment of Human
ServicesDisability Services DivisionDevelopment
of a Payment Structure for Day Supports

• Project Kickoff Meeting
• February 21, 2008

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Table of Contents
I Overview of Navigant Consulting,
Inc. II Team Structure and Background III
Examples of Similar Work IV
Project Approach V Communication Plan
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I.
Overview of Navigant Consulting, Inc.

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I. Overview of Navigant Consulting, Inc.

• Navigant Consulting (NYSE NCI) is an
  international consulting firm providing dispute,
  investigative, operational, risk management and
  financial advisory solutions to legal counsel,
  government agencies and companies experiencing
  regulatory or structural challenges
• Nearly 2,000 consultants and a total of
  approximately 2,500 employees
• Core U.S. locations in New York, Chicago,
  Washington DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles and San
  Francisco
• Core international locations in London, Toronto,
  Hong Kong and Shanghai
• Our mission is to provide advice, information and
  solutions that make a positive difference for our
  clients.

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I. Overview of Navigant Consulting, Inc.
NCIs consulting professionals are skilled in a
variety of services and work within a wide range
of sectors
SECTORS
Discovery Services
Litigation Investigations
Claims Management Analysis
Healthcare
Financial Services
Public Sector
Energy
Construction
Product Liability / Asbestos
SERVICES
Corporate Restructuring
Operations Advisory Management
Financial Transaction Advisory
Government Contracting
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I. Overview of Navigant Consulting, Inc.

• NCIs Government Payer Group has experience
  working with government health and
• human services agencies in 45 states and a number
  of counties and localities within the
• following areas
• provider cost funding analysis
• managed care program design, implementation and
  monitoring
• policy analysis
• reimbursement and delivery system design,
  development and implementation
• program evaluation
• fraud and abuse and potential overpayment
  determination
• Medicaid Management Information System and fiscal
  agent review
• medical and healthcare claims review and

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II.
Team Structure and Background

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II. Team Structure and Background
Dependent on the skill set most needed for the
tasks at hand
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II. Team Structure and Background

• Jim Pettersson, Project Director
• Director at NCI
• Over 25 years of experience with healthcare
  clients, including State Medicaid agencies,
  commercial payers and providers
• Specializes in the design, implementation and
  evaluation of reimbursement systems for all types
  of provider services
• Extensive experience in the development of
  provider cost analysis, including the development
  of approaches and tools for identifying and
  quantifying provider costs
• Cathy Anderson, Project Manager
• Director at NCI
• Over 25 years of experience in state government
  working in human services
• Past President of NASDDDS
• Specializes in strategic planning and system
  design and analysis for human service systems,
  specifically services which support people with
  disabilities
• Significant experience in the utilization of
  Medicaid funding, including Home and
  Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers
• Trained facilitator

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II. Team Structure and Background

• Benjamin Mori, Managing Consultant
• Experienced in the evaluation and design of
  long-term care reimbursement systems
• Experienced in the development of cost reports
  and cost accounting guidelines for home-and
  community based service providers
• Practiced knowledge in the rebasing of rates for
  human services providers
• Katie Hayman, Senior Consultant
• Experience in more than 14 states working on
  consulting engagements with state mental health,
  developmental disabilities, and long-term care
  agencies
• Work focuses on strategic planning and health
  system design and analysis, with specific
  emphasis on health systems that support people
  with disabilities
• Specialized experience in producing comparative
  studies among states, local governments, funding
  sources and programs/services for individuals
  with disabilities
• MBA in healthcare administration

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III.
Examples of Similar Work
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III. Examples of Similar Work
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III. Examples of Similar Work
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III. Examples of Similar Work
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IV.
Project Approach

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IV. Project Approach

• Overview of Our Approach
• We will complete 7 defined project tasks over the
  span of 19 months
• Finalize the projects written communication and
  work plan
• Develop an inventory of Minnesotas day services
  and supports
• Understand Minnesota's waiver aggregate
  management and budget methodologies
• Conduct interviews, a survey and comparative
  research to develop payment structure model
• Complete field testing of new payment structure
• Draft a report that contains findings from the
  field testing
• Present findings to stakeholders and develop a
  statewide implementation plan
• Input from a variety of stakeholders is the
  foundation of our approach.
• We will use a comprehensive Communication Plan
  throughout the project. The focus of the
  Communication Plan is scheduling and completing
  regular status updates with the MN team,
  including bi-weekly conference calls and
  quarterly status update memos.
• The projects Core Team (Jim, Cathy and Katie)
  will take on the majority of project activities
  and will be responsible for all deliverables.

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IV. Project Approach
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V.
Communication Plan

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V. Communication Plan