“Well, services for individuals with IDD are funded by Medicaid waiver programs. They’re called home and community-based services, or Texas home living waiver. Those programs have an embedded rate of $10.60 an hour for the individuals that provide those services and that is the funding that us and spectrum of solutions received today. And one of the things that we’re trying to do in the next legislative session is have that push to $15.17 an hour…”

– Chris Barnhill, CEO of Permiacare

PermiaCare and Spectrum of Solutions Texas hosted community members, legislators, and industry stakeholders for the first West Texas Intellectual/Developmental Disability Summit to discuss the state of IDD care services in the Permian Basin region.