Agency for Health Care Administration, Office of Medicaid. Interim Report on the Alternative Services Network Model. Interim Report on the Alternative Services Network Model. The initial ASN to be developed would include health care providers and facilities that serve children with special health care needs. The legislative language also required AHCA to submit an interim report to the governor and legislature after the first year of implementation.
Some issues impact full implementation.
Further CMS consultant physicians must be enrolled to provide continuity of care for special needs children. Policies and procedures for full implementation along with waiver approval are also necessary. As a managed care HMO provider network, the ASN is expected to save money by providing the right amount of service at the right time. Many of the savings reported in the literature have resulted from decreased hospital days. As yet, no empirical studies have sufficiently examined hospital utilization among children with special health care needs to ascertain an expected level of cost reduction with a strict managed care HMO model.