APD to Hold Tier Workshops...

For Immediate Release: Contact:
July 1, 2009 Melanie Mowry Etters
Communication Director
850-488-4257

APD to hold Tier Workshops

TALLAHASSEE — The Agency for Person with Disabilities will

hold three workshops around the state that will clarify and simplify

the Medicaid waiver tier rules. The legislatively required tiers

went into effect on October 15, 2008. Anyone interested should

consider attending one of the workshops. The meetings are as

follows:

· July 9, 1- 4 p.m., Agency for Persons with Disabilities, 4030
Esplanade Way, Suite 380, Room 301, Tallahassee, Florida
· July 16, 1- 4 p.m., Agency for Persons with Disabilities, 401
NW 2nd Avenue, Room 1011, Miami, Florida
· July 24, 1- 4 p.m., Agency for Persons with Disabilities, 1313
N. Tampa Street, Suite 515, Tampa, Florida
The text of the proposed rule amendment and the workshop

agenda will be posted on the APD Web site.

If you are not able to attend a workshop, you may send written

comments to: Mike Dunn, APD Legislative Affairs, APD, 4030 Esplanade

Way, Suite 380, Tallahassee, FL 32399.

The agency annually serves about 35,000 Floridians with

developmental disabilities of mental retardation, autism, cerebral

palsy, spina bifida, and Prader-Willi syndrome. For more information

on the agency, call

1-866-APD-CARES or visit www.APDCares.org.