Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. XxxxxXxxx has developed a broad range of knowledge and skillsets in assisting government agencies with their policy and regulation development efforts. We have specialized expertise with Medicaid and other Health and Human Services policy and regulation assistance, but we have also helped our government clients with policies and regulations in a wide variety of areas including finance and administration, liquor control, motor vehicle licensing, and public safety. Our general approach begins with our initial project plan tasks including an initial planning call, a review of background documentation, a kickoff meeting, and any needed revisions of the work plan and schedule. We often assist clients who need to comply with federal regulations and, as a result, their policies and regulations need to be changed. In other situations, a new program requires new supporting policies and regulations. We use a variety of methods to meet the needs of our clients including: • Research existing federal and state policies, procedures, and regulations • Interview federal and state policy experts for information gathering and validation • Analyze processes and procedures for existing programs to determine compliance with policies and regulations • Identify gaps between federal and state policies and regulations • Prepare supporting documents and federal planning documents • Provide recommendations reports and testimony as needed • Draft policy compliance roadmaps Examples of the assistance we can provide to our clients include: • CMS Advanced Planning Documents • Payment Error Rate Measurement compliance • Medicaid Waiver design, negotiation, and implementation • Federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) evaluation • Data governance policies and standards • IT security policy development • Human resources and staffing policy Assistance with process and productivity improvement. Process improvement is a core service for BerryDunn. We have developed a methodology that draws upon philosophies and tools from Six Sigma and Lean, such as defining the voice of the customer and identifying waste, but that also leverages elements of other business process improvement methodologies. As advisors to the State, our focus on process improvement will include both ongoing, continual assessment of project processes as well as discrete, focused process improvement activities, including facilitating lessons-learned meetings and process- mapping sessions. Our approach is guided by the philo...
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. MAXIMUS has national experience developing policy manuals based on best practices or processes in other states that have streamlined or improved production and quality. We must also assure that all applicable laws and regulations are complied with and program guidelines are followed. Our services encompass reviewing, analyzing, and recommending policies, revisions, and solutions to help ensure compliance with federal laws and grant programs for a wide range of programs that span the functional areas listed in the RFP. MAXIMUS has found a common need among our clients — the need for policy analysis and technical support to deal with these constant changes; as well as support in answering the challenging questions that can come up, even in the context of well-established programs. Our overarching goal is to provide our clients with the analysis and recommendations needed to make informed management decisions that support federal compliance. Our approach includes: Reviewing and analyzing the laws and policy Identifying approaches to complying with laws and programs Implementing new and revised policies and processes Aligning policies with client processes and document procedures Responding to challenging questions regarding compliance We have a deep understanding of state and federal policies and processes for revising such policies. For example, our understanding of child welfare policy and programmatic functions, Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA), CCWIS regulations, and their implications for system development enables us to assist clients with early planning to align operational processes. Based on best practices in other states, MAXIMUS developed the procedural manual and forms for the new Department of Child Services (DCS) Social Security Unit in Indiana and provided training to all of the unit’s staff. Following our assistance, the DCS Social Security Unit is now providing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Title II eligibility determinations statewide.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. To accomplish the goals of our state-client initiatives, we carefully assess the relationship between the policy and the program to obtain optimal alignment that guides future changes. Where applicable, we work with the links among multiple programs to xxxxxx an integrated view of Customers’ needs and the state’s capacity to successfully meet those needs. A sample of CSG’s policy and regulation development services include: Facilitation with Federal Agencies: We can establish a communication process to provide timely Federal regulation information to Florida Customers. Timely communication is an essential component of our approach because it triggers the collaboration to assess the impacts and develop a plan of action. We provide guidance, training, and tracking for Customers based on our experience with federal legislation and policies. We also prepare for and participate in communication opportunities with federal government officials. We are an objective, knowledgeable source of information for obtaining maximum benefit from your efforts to comply with federal legislation and prepare for changes. Waiver Assistance: States use Waivers to propose policy changes to federal oversight agencies, such as the 1135 Waiver used for Medicaid agencies to propose adjustments to their program to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CSG coordinates and prepares Customers for the process of writing, submitting, and executing waivers and grants. We also have experience facilitating relationships with stakeholder groups, developing outreach strategies, and facilitating working meetings with advocate groups. National Policy Insight: By participating in industry committees and conferences focusing on federal requirements for state programs, CSG is on the front lines for understanding the significance of federal legislation and proposed changes to federal policies. Our role in these committees and conferences, combined with our ongoing work with clients affected by federal legislation and changes to policies, supports our capacity to help Florida Customers adapt to the impact of federal legislation and proposed federal policy changes. Our substantial investment in ongoing research on federal legislation and proposed federal policy changes enhances our approach to assisting Florida Customers in this area.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. Balmoral is a trusted advisor for a number of state government entities in the area of policy and regulation development. Policy change may be driven by external forces, new legislation, or internal analysis. Our work across multiple agencies in Florida has been successful due to our ability to quickly adopt suggestions and incorporate adjustments to accommodate different agency’s needs and requirements. Balmoral has worked successfully across Florida’s public sector in economic development, water resources, transportation, education, agriculture, and housing/land use policy. Within education, the Florida House of Representatives retained Balmoral to analyze the Florida Price Level Index (FPLI) and assist in development Service 5 Policymaking, Rulemaking Experience: Gulf Consortium, FL House of Representatives, FDACS, USDA, DOT, NASA, FDEP of revised, implementing statutory language. FDACS charged Balmoral with analysis and recommendation regarding two rule change efforts relating to agricultural water supply based on the 2016 Water Bill requiring consistency across the state in estimating water use. Balmoral also performed analysis of proposed rules for impaired species including impacts on industry for FFWCC, and similar analysis for NWFWMD regarding 33 rule changes related to permitting. For FDOT, Balmoral evaluated multiple executive orders for consideration of whether FDOT’s supply chain was impacted, potentially requiring policy change. Our professional staff determined no changes were required, but monitoring needed to occur. Balmoral’s policy work is highly regarded across departments and subject matter.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. The CDR Team of professionals brings extensive experience in providing targeted, objective, and high-quality management consulting services to public agencies for policy and regulation development. Our professionals’ unique experience developing and adopting policy regulations and regulatory programs for State of Florida agencies is unmatched. With two former State of Florida Chiefs-of-Staff, General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel and two former State of Florida agency directors, CDR team members have successfully completed complex, controversial, multi-objective, multi-stakeholder projects and programs involving the development and adoption of policies and regulations in the State of Florida areas of financial services (CFO), accounting and budget; agriculture, environment, housing and development/bond finance, management services, community affairs and emergency preparedness, transportation planning, and public and private health care. CDR’s high level experience spans two Cabinet level agencies and thirteen state agencies, including all four HHS agencies and policymaking bodies such as the executive branch and the Florida Legislature. Additionally, the CDR Team is uniquely positioned to assist the Florida’s executive branch agencies with rulemaking initiatives, including development of the statutorily required annual regulatory plan. Our team members have been responsible for creating entirely new regulatory structures for emerging industries through rulemaking and continuous updates to existing rules as necessitated by changed policy direction or statutes. More importantly, CDR’s team members also understand when rulemaking is necessary, and have a proven track record of helping state agencies craft rules that are understandable, efficient, meet policy objectives, and withstand legal scrutiny.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. Assistance with policy and regulation development is often part of larger research, evaluation, and advisory projects. WRMA regularly makes recommendations for new policies and regulations or recommends changes to existing ones based on the results of our studies. For example, as part of our work on the City of Philadelphia Child Welfare Review Panel (CWRP) and the Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection projects, WRMA identified where current policies and regulations were insufficient to adequately protect children and recommended new policies to address those insufficiencies. This included policy, program, legislative, and regulatory options to enhance child abuse and neglect prevention; policies for hospitals to screen for and identify children who were potentially abused; contract establishment and monitoring policies for private providers; and policies and standards to identify whether risks were sufficient to remove children from their homes. For the CWRP project, the city subsequently re-engaged WRMA to assist with monitoring activities, which included creating and publishing progress reports.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. The State of Florida faces significant policy and regulation development challenges, including how to appropriately regulate increased production of hemp, enhance regulations to implement Governor XxXxxxxx’x water quality initiative, and respond to the opioid epidemic and COVID-19—major public health challenges that ICF is helping state and federal clients navigate across the country. ICF worked with governments in California, Massachusetts, and other states to develop regulations and analyze the economic impacts of legalizing marijuana. We tailor our approach to policy and regulation development to each policy question and agency need, building on common elements such as involvement of SMEs, time- tested procedures and tools, and rigorous and adaptable methodologies that provide critical information to decision makers, recognizing the resource and schedule constraints faced by state agencies. ICF begins each policy and regulatory support engagement with an understanding of the reason for the action and available policy instruments, the baseline (“business-as-usual”) conditions, affected entities, and the projected effects of each policy option. Our multidisciplinary team of policy analysts, economists, and scientists brings the necessary expertise and experience to conduct the range of technical analyses necessary to define and evaluate policy options; model social, economic, and environmental impacts; estimate the costs, benefits, and distributional effects (e.g., small business impacts, afford- ability, environmental justice) of regulations; and quantify uncertainty. We provide support through all steps of the rulemaking process, including analyzing and responding to public comments using ICF’s powerful CommentWorks tool. ICF economists, policy analysts, and scientists also conduct retrospective reviews to evaluate and improve existing rules and to help identify opportunities for streamlining deregula- tory efforts.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. In providing consulting services to not for profit clientele, we assisted in the review and development of policies and procedures. In addition, many of our management team members serve as leaders on various Board organizations throughout the community and are knowledgeable regarding policies and regulation development and continue to assist Boards in this effort. The firm’s assistance with policy development is detailed below: Consultation Type: JESCA Management Study Client: Xxxxx X. Xxxxx Community Association, Inc. Project Description Provide consulting assistance to JESCA in the review of its organization, policies, procedures, and financial records. Role in Project: Prime Contractor Description of Methodologies and Tools Used: Overall review of JESCA operations with comparisons to past achievements, plans and standards, achievements of comparable organizations, and the ideal non-profit organization. Description of the Outcome: Consultant study findings/observations and recommendations, along with JESCA management responses.
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. PCG understands how policy operates in a live program environment. We also understand how policies and processes can become misaligned with regulation over time, and the heavy lift it takes to continuously realign policy with changes in law/statue. We will bring our expertise in policy research and development and regulation/rule alignment to guide the State of Florida through the process of identifying opportunities for policy updating and/or integration, as needed. This work will include conducting a crosswalk of current regulations compared with written policy to identify gaps and redundancies. Then, creating a plan to examine and redraft policy and/or propose revisions to regulation. PCG will focus on identifying efficiencies for both the state agencies and the individuals served by recommending options to streamline policy across programs, with opportunities to transform processes and manuals for programs toward a more simplified, modernized and centralized approach. More specifically, in our approach, we: Lead and facilitate meetings to review existing policy and regulation Create a plan and subcommittees for development of new or streamlined policy Identify gaps in existing policy or regulation, and propose solutions to address these gaps Assist in the design and development of accessible policy for staff and participants Conduct national and statewide policy research Prepare and issue updates on changes to policy and regulation, to staff and the public Assess other states’ approaches policy and regulation development, and compatibility to Florida In preparation for a policy review and drafting process, we will conduct significant research and provide recommendations for revisions or waivers, with a focus on what can be changed in the short-term, and what changes can/should be made in the future. We will utilize our subject matter specialists who have direct experience in state government to provide the policy knowledge needed. As opposed to a one-size- fits-all model, we will focus our research and policy development model to meet the State of Florida’s needs and bring extensive knowledge of local policy, state policy, federal policy and statute to assist the State: Local Policies PCG conducts local-level assessment and analysis, bringing our experience in areas such as workforce development, education, and asset mapping, to consider municipal- level solutions and alignment with state policy. State Policy PCG compares state program po...
Assistance with Policy and Regulation Development. Policy and regulation development require an understanding of stakeholder preferences and issues. In our experience, policy development that is transparent and methodical is more likely to be successful in implementation. The identification of interested parties is the first step toward crafting successful policy or rule language. Our consultants undertake policy or rule development tasks as a treasure map: when you find what the stakeholder treasures, you find the key to crafting policy that addresses concerns. There is always more than one way to implement any policy or rule, and determining potential conflicts between proposed policy or rule changes and specific groups is a fundamental step in development. We apply time-tested methods for assessing unintended consequences, distributional impacts of policy, and indirect effects of policy and rule changes. Our approach involves gathering Balmoral assesses policy or rule changes from a ‘risk-aware’ - rather than ‘risk-averse’ - framework enough information to evaluate interested parties, which may be residents, visitors, businesses, local governments, specific interest groups, vulnerable populations, or other groups. Our team assesses policy or rule changes from a risk-aware - rather than risk-averse - framework: intentionally identify each potential conflict, and determine whether a proposed approach serves to mitigate, offset, or accept each conflict. Potential approaches can then be assessed against this framework to identify optimal approaches. Our consultants will lead, facilitate, or support work sessions, as the Customer deems appropriate, internally and/or with external stakeholders to evolve policy and rule development. Assigning tasks to stakeholders to assure early understanding and buy-in – or identify conflicts that will likely not be overcome – is an effective technique to understand stakeholder positions. In our work with DACS, stakeholders were assigned various tasks, which identified the challenges early on which were manageable, versus those that would likely not be overcome during rule language development. In addition, our consultants have been called upon to evaluate the estimated costs of various regulatory changes, and are fully-equipped to prepare Statements of Estimated Regulatory Cost (SERC) or similar analyses as needed. In work for FDOT and others during legislative session, we are frequently called upon to deliver ad hoc analysis of pending issues, with quick turnarounds and ve...
