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Q -- PILOT PROGRAM OF INDIVIDUALIZED RESIDENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES DUE 070196 POC Carol Ortega Phone: (703) 697-8975, FAX: (703) 614-8660 The Government anticipates establishing a pilot program of individualized residentialmental health services. Please provide corporate capabilities or information you may haveto assist the Government in finalizing this requirement by 1 July 1996. The program wouldprovide ''residential and 'wraparound' services to children who are in need of mentalhealth services,'' to involve ''individualized mental health services that are providedprincipally to allow a child to remain in the family home or other least-restrictive andleast-costly setting, but also are provided as an aftercare planning service for childrenwho have received acute or residential care. Such term includes nontraditional mentalhealth services that will assist the child to be maintained in the least-restrictive andleast-costly setting.'' The program would also involve ''...the sharing of financial riskby accepting as a maximum annual payment for such services a 'case-rate reimbursement' notin excess of the amount of the annual standard CHAMPUS residential treatment benefitpayable (as determined in accordance with section 8.1 of chapter 3 of volume II of theCHAMPUS policy manual).'' A ''child,'' for purposes of this exercise is defined as one who:a) is dependent for over one-half of their support and has not yet attained the age of 21,(23 if a full-time student or physically/mentally incapacitated); and b) has a seriousemotional disturbance that is generally regarded as amenable to treatment. Please provideTto this program; i.e., if one or two specific sites were selected within the two Regions,and one of the beneficiaries in the program relocated to another site within the twoRegions, what method could be employed to deliver care. The Government does not intend toaward a contract on the basis of the information received or to otherwise pay for theinformation received. Any such contract will be awarded based on a solicitation issuedafter the Government finalizes the requirement. (0123)

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