Joint Legislative Task Force

Long-Term Care Residential Facility Payment Systems

Meeting Materials

December 18, 2007

• Agenda 
  Documents Below Prepared by - House Office of Program Research
  and Senate Committee Services:
• Task Force Discussion of Recommendations - Decision Matrix 
• "DRAFT Proposed Distribution of FY09 Appropriation of $8.8 Million in State Funds"
• "Highlights of Governor Gregoire's 2008 Supplemental Budget Proposal of Interest to the Task Force" 

November 28, 2007

• Agenda

November 14, 2007

• Agenda  - revised
• Staff Summary of Brown University Report to Simplify Nursing Facility Medicaid Payment Rates - Chelsea Buchanan, Senate Committee Services
• Community Residential Settings - DSHS Aging and Disability Services Administration

October 16, 2007

• Agenda
• Proposal and Rationale for a Simplified Medicaid Payment System for Nursing Homes in Washington State, Department of Social and Health Services, as contracted with Brown University
• Toward a Simplified Medicaid Payment System for Nursing Homes in Washington State, Dr. Vincent Mor, Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University & Dr. David Grabowski, Harvard Medical School
• Responses to questions raised by Task Force members during the Residential Rates Overview presented on September 26, 2007, DSHS Aging and Disability Services Administration

September 26, 2007

• Agenda
• Aging and Disability Services Administration – Residential Rates Overview, Department of Social and Health Services
• Preliminary Work Plan
• An Overview of Key Task Force Issues, Bernard Dean, Office of Program Research