This Category includes Orchid Policy Proposals as well as Highlighting the NEED for Federal and State Procedures & Tools to FACILITATE compliance with EXISTING DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW. In Disability Law — A LOT of IT is THERE — States just aren’t complying with the LAW. States need a lot more guidance than what they have been given. If States want to seek modifications that still comply with the Law — that’s fine — the continued widespread non-compliance is NOT lawful and is NOT good public policy.

Elimination of the Federal Institute for Mental Disease Exclusion Rule
Medicaid funding for Placements & Housing for Individuals needing Long Term Care

CO Medicaid Fair Housing Compliance
Social Impact Bonds to Fund Housing & Placements for People with Disabilities

IMMUNITY SEEMS TO BE A BIG PLAYER IN “MENTAL ILLNESS”

IT COULD BE VERY HELPFUL FOR CMS (CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES) & NIMH (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH)

TO COLLABORATE ON PROTOCOLS FOR DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN MENTAL HEALTH ESPECIALLY WITH RESPECT TO ENCEPHALITIS.

SUCH A COLLABORATION WAS DONE WITH 1ST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS.

& IMPROVING ON WHAT WE’VE GOT

The Need for CMS Guidance & Administrative Enforcement of Disability Civil Rights Laws, Repeal of the IMD Rule & Provision of Housing for LTC to comply with Disability Anti-Discrimination Law.

The Need of Colorado Medicaid to include ACT & Flexible ACT in CMHS Waiver, seek Waivers for LTC Housing & Bed Space, re-vamp CMHS Waiver, consider creation of CO Justice Cognitive Supports Waiver, etc.