Provided by the Mental Health Institutes and the Centers for People with Developmental Disabilities. Each year, the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services reviews and revises the rates charged for services at the mental health institutes and the centers for people with developmental disabilities. The rates for the mental health institutes and the centers for people with developmental disabilities are approved by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Rates are based on the actual cost of providing these services and the availability of third party revenues such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Increases are due to salary increases and inflation increases.
Increasing the Medical Assistance funding to approximate costs has allowed for lower rate increases at the mental health institutes. The department believes the state rate will remain comparable with other psychiatric facilities offering similar services. Under the flat rate system, some costs are shifted to counties who are responsible for patients who do not have unusual costs. To minimize this, the non typical and outpatient medical costs have been broken out of the flat rate and thereby places the costs with the counties who have the patients that require these unusual services. The county is afforded the opportunity to discuss the situation with a representative of the institute empowered to act on behalf of the institute.