The Transdisciplinary Clinic Model: Improving Health Outcomes and Reducing Healthcare Costs For Americans with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) | Kisaco Research

The Transdisciplinary Clinic Model: Improving Health Outcomes and Reducing Healthcare Costs For Americans with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)

  •  Americans with IDD face enormous obstacles when seeking quality health services
  • The vast majority of Americans with IDD are enrolled in state Medicaid programs MCOs struggle with the IDD population because they’re statistical outliers, physicians and dentists aren’t trained to care for them, the population is not properly risk-adjusted, and frequently, MCOs treat them all the same
  • For all these reasons, according to the CDC, patients with IDD comprise approximately 4.9% of Medicaid enrollees, but they drive 15.7% of the costs
  • The transdisciplinary clinic model can significantly improve health outcomes while, at the same time, achieve major cost savings for third party payers