Developing Reimbursement Levels Using the Supports Intensity Scale (SIS) in Louisiana

The Louisiana Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) chose to explore the use of the SIS as a resource allocation tool. This report is an overview of HSRI and other stakeholder's work in developing assessment informed funding levels. The paper begins with a description of the NOW waiver, follows with a discussion of the process employed by OCDD in collecting SIS data, presents the results, and concludes with a discussion of recent progress and lessons learned.