IPRO’s Early Intervention (EI) monitoring program helps to ensure that eligible infants and toddlers and their families have access to timely, consistent and appropriate services and administrative processes.
States are responsible under Part C of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to ensure that infants and toddlers with disabilities receive the early intervention services afforded to them under state and federal law. State early intervention monitoring programs help to assure both the quality and value of these services.
The IPRO Solution
IPRO’s comprehensive Early Intervention Monitoring Program helps assure the quality and appropriate utilization of the services delivered to eligible infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. IIPRO’s EI services may include:
- Review and assessment of EI provider credentials
- Development of operational monitoring assessment criteria, protocols, assessment tools, reports, and report language
- Onsite assessment of EI provider services and processes, utilizing staff interview, record and document review, and facility walk-through
- Identification and immediate referral of situations that may pose a health or safety risk
- Provision of technical assistance to providers
- Corrective action plan assessment
- Review and reporting for provider clinical practices
Key elements of our monitoring process may include:
- Pre-review activities, including facilitation of provider and municipality self-assessment, and implementation of parent surveys and professional surveys
- Onsite review, including holding entrance and exit conferences, interviewing staff, selecting and reviewing child records, observing the facility, and examining documentation and billing information
- Issuing a written report of findings based on specific criteria established in conjunction with the client
- Should improvements be required, IPRO assesses the provider’s corrective action plan and prepares a response.
The IPRO Advantage
- Over 25 years of experience collaborating with state government to implement Medicaid oversight
- The services of a highly skilled, educated, and experienced EI monitoring program staff who completed more than 3,000 EI provider reviews and reports, and evaluated more than 3,000 corrective action plans
- Access to IPRO’s staff of more than 350 quality improvement specialists, clinicians, medical reviewers, statisticians, project managers, and Medicaid and Medicare program experts
- The services of a national health care program assessment and quality improvement organization
- An efficient data collection and reporting application for tracking, managing, and reporting on all elements of EI monitoring activities
- FERPA and HIPAA program compliance
Contact info@ipro.org for additional information.
