The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:

Announcement:

• Register Now for HCPF's Annual Stakeholder Webinar

Memos:

• Updated Case Management Daily Operations During Care and Case Management (CCM) Implementation

• Group In-Reach in LTC Nursing Facilities for Medicaid Members

General OCL Meetings:

• Children’s Disability Advisory Committee (CDAC)

• Experiences of Health First Colorado Members with Disabilities in Primary Care Settings – Part One

• ❌ CANCELED: Aug. 10, 2023 Complementary and Integrative Health Waiver Advisory Committee

Announcement

Register Now for HCPF's Annual Stakeholder Webinar

Please register to join HCPF leaders for a webinar on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. This event will share what we accomplished together last year, address priorities for this fiscal year, and invite stakeholder feedback and comments.

The webinar will be held:

Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023

9 to 11 a.m. MT

Register Here

For other information and materials, see the HCPF Annual Stakeholder Webinar page.

Memos

These memos and other memos of interest are on HCPF's 2023 Memo Series Communication webpage.

• Operational Memo - Updated Case Management Daily Operations During Care and Case Management (CCM) Implementation (July 31, 2023): The purpose of this Operational Memo is to inform Case Management Agencies (CMAs) of the updated operational procedures and timelines related to the data migration “freeze” of the Business Utilization System (BUS), DDDWeb, and implementation of documentation and use of the Care and Case Management System (CCM).

• Operational Memo - Group In-Reach in LTC Nursing Facilities for Medicaid Members (July 31, 2023): The purpose of this Operational Memo is to inform Nursing Facilities of the Group In- Reach Program and ways in which Nursing Facilities can support implementation of this program. The program is designed to provide our Long-Term Care (LTC) Medicaid Members currently residing in a Nursing Facility, with a brief meeting regarding transition and community-based services in a group setting.

General OCL Meetings

Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Other OCL meeting information is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Children’s Disability Advisory Committee (CDAC)

The CDAC serves in an advisory capacity to HCPF and makes recommendations regarding issues related to benefits for children and youth with disabilities age 20 and younger, provider education interventions and application of standards. All interested stakeholders are welcome.

We meet the second Wednesday of the month from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MT.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023

10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MT

Join via Google Meet

Join via Phone:

1-650-667-2698, PIN: 194 068 900#

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Experiences of Health First Colorado Members with Disabilities in Primary Care Settings – Part One

HCPF is holding this initial meeting in response to feedback from advocates about the experiences of Health First Colorado members living with disabilities in primary care settings. We invite all interested members living with disabilities, their family members, disability advocates and any other interested stakeholders to participate.

This meeting will begin with a presentation by our partner, the Colorado Health Institute, on Health First Colorado’s Accountable Care Collaborative, the regional structure that manages the physical and behavioral health benefits and helps coordinate care for Medicaid members.

HCPF will then lead and facilitate a listening session during which we invite stakeholders to inform us about patient experiences, issues, strengths and weaknesses: anything you want us to know.

HCPF’s goal for this first meeting is to gather information that will help us identify needed and feasible steps to improve this system of care.

The meeting will be held:

Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023

9 to 10:30 a.m. MT

Register Here

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❌ CANCELED: Complementary and Integrative Health Waiver Advisory Committee

The Complementary and Integrative Health (formerly the Spinal Cord Injury Advisory Committee) meeting scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023 at 10 a.m. MT has been canceled.

The next meeting of this committee will be held on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 at 10 a.m. MT. You can copy this event from the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar to your own calendar.

For more information about this committee, see the Complementary and Integrative Health Advisory Committee webpage.

Need to Make an Accommodation Request for One of Our General OCL or ARPA-Related Stakeholder Meetings?

Reasonable accommodations for all OCL and ARPA-related stakeholder meetings will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities and language services for individuals whose first language is not English may be provided upon request. Please notify John Barry at 303-866-3173 or John.R.Barry@state.co.us or the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.

General OCL Meetings are on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

ARPA-Related Meetings are on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.

Looking for Prior OCL Communications?

Do you know about the OCL LTSS Newsletter Archive? On this page, you can:

• Search OCL newsletters back to January 2022

• Subscribe to the newsletter

• Keep track of OCL announcements, meeting reminders, and memos