Evaluation of Mental Health Related Medicaid Programs
Contractor: Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute,
University of South Florida
Agency Contract Number: M0505 (Replaced by MED049)
Contract Period: July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2006
The vendor has a mission to provide assistance to state agencies, and provides in-kind support for evaluation activities. Although Medicaid has previously supported evaluation services from the vendor with general revenue funding, the vendor has agreed to provide all the matching funds needed by the Agency, provided that the Agency gives the vendor the matching funds from Title XIX, as proposed in this contract. Under this contract, the Medicaid program proposes that the vendor continue to meet the evaluation needs of Medicaid related to the provision of mental health and substance abuse services.
Specifically, the vendor will provide the following services:
- Continue to evaluate Medicaid’s Prepaid Mental Health Plans in Areas 1 and 6;
- Begin to evaluate Medicaid’s Alzheimer’s Home and Community-Based Waiver Program;
- Continue an evaluation of Medicaid’s Statewide Inpatient Psychiatric Program (SIPP) programs throughout the state;
- Evaluate specialized therapeutic foster care;
- Evaluate Medicaid’s mental health service array for children;
- Study suicide in the SSI population;
- Study Medicaid-funded behavioral health services in the schools;
- Investigate the impact of providing cognate drugs to persons with dementia on time to nursing home admission and need for mental health services;
- Study elder mistreatment and Medicaid service utilization;
- Examine racial and ethnic disparities in service use and perceived unmet service needs;
- Conduct a three-year follow-up study of the adolescent girls and mothers on Medicaid;
- Write a brief report about creating public use data sets;
- Investigate issues related to the continuity of care for adult Medicaid enrollees who were discharged from correctional facilities.
Deliverable(s):
Brief Description |
Due Date(s) |
| A presentation of the findings will be delivered to the plans and AHCA staff. |
June 15, 2005 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Florida Medicaid Alzheimer’s Home and Community-Based Waiver Program: An Evaluation
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Evaluation of the Statewide Inpatient Psychiatric Program (SIPP)
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Evaluation of Florida's Specialized Therapeutic Foster Care Program
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Children’s Mental Health: Service Array, Evidence-Based Practice and Quality Improvement
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Suicide Among Medicaid Enrollees
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
December 31, 2004 |
A Study of Medicaid-Funded Behavioral Health Services in the Schools
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
The Impact of Providing Cognate Drugs to Persons with Dementia on Time
to Nursing Home Admission and Need for Mental Health Services
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
March 30, 2005 |
The Study of Elder Mistreatment and Medicaid Service Utilization
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Service Use and Perceived Unmet Service Needs
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted by that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Adolescents Girls in Transition: A Year Three Follow-Up
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Creation of a Public Use Data Set
| A brief report will be submitted that outlines the issues with creating a public use dataset. |
March 30, 2005 |
Medicaid and Department of Corrections Continuity of Care Study
| A concept paper summarizing the evaluation questions, methodology and time lines will be submitted. |
August 31, 2004 |
| A report will be submitted by June 30, 2005 that includes results from all data collection activities outlined in the concept paper submitted and approved by the Agency. |
June 30, 2005 |
Miscellaneous Medicaid Deliverables
| List the members of a technical advisory group which at a minimum will meet once a year and include: at least two representatives from the Agency; a representative from the Department of Children and Families; and two other key users of the information to review methodologies and reports and guide work proposed. |
September 30, 2004 |
| Progress report for the quarter ending September 30, 2004, which includes at a minimum: work plans including timelines and staffing for each project; and a list of any publications/presentations made on work completed for the Agency. |
September 30, 2004 |
| Progress report for the quarter ending December 31, 2004, which includes at a minimum: list of any publications/presentations on work completed for the Agency; report on key findings to date; and identification of any changes in methodology or work plans. |
December 31, 2004 |
| Progress report for the quarter ending March 31, 2005, which includes at a minimum: list of any publications/presentations made on work completed for the Agency; report on key findings to date; and identification of any changes in methodology or work plans. |
March 31, 2005 |
| By June 30, 2005, final report for the entire contract period, which includes, discussions of any problems encountered in meeting deliverables, and identification of priorities for subsequent work. |
June 30, 2005 |
Agency Contact: Cliff Schmidt
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