Early Intervention Quality Improvement Monitoring

IPRO's EI monitoring program helps to ensure that eligible infants and toddlers and their families have access to timely, consistent and appropriate services and administrative processes.

States are responsible for fulfilling certain obligations under Part C of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, including ensuring that disabled infants and toddlers receive the early intervention (EI) services afforded to them under state and federal law. State EI monitoring programs help to assure both the quality and value of these services.

The IPRO Solution

IPRO's comprehensive Early Intervention Monitoring Program helps states assure the quality and appropriate utilization of the services delivered to eligible disabled infants and toddlers, and their families. IPRO has been monitoring the quality of EI services provided by individuals and agencies and overseeing the municipalities that administer these services since 2001. IPRO's EI services include:

Review and assessment of EI provider certification applications
Development of EI assessment criteria, protocols, tools, reports and report language
Onsite assessment of EI provider services, including identification and referral of situations that place children in imminent danger
Provision of technical assistance to providers
Corrective action plan evaluation
Clinical practice review

Key elements of our monitoring process include:

Pre-review activities, such as administering self-assessment of providers and municipalities and managing parent and community professional surveys
Onsite review, including holding entrance and exit conferences, interviewing staff, selecting and reviewing child records, observing the facility, and examining documentation and billing information
Issuing a written report of our findings based on specific criteria established in conjunction with the client

Should improvements be required, IPRO assesses the provider's corrective action plan and prepares a response for state approval. Our EI experts also staff a provider technical assistance hotline.

IPRO's highly skilled EI monitoring team includes 20 registered nurses and individuals with masters degrees in social work and education and exceptional experience in all aspects of the EI monitoring process and state and federal guidelines. 15 of our EI staff have over 5 years of experience monitoring EI provider services and 12 have EI provider administrative and/or fiscal management experience.

The IPRO Advantage

Over 25 years of experience collaborating with state government to implement Medicaid oversight
The services of a highly skilled, educated and experienced EI monitoring program staff who have completed over 3,000 EI provider reviews and over 2,400 corrective action plans for IPRO
Access to IPRO's staff of more than 350 quality improvement specialists, clinicians, medical reviewers, statisticians, project managers and Medicaid and Medicare program experts
The services of a national health care program assessment and quality improvement organization
An efficient data collection and reporting application for tracking, managing and reporting on all elements of EI monitoring activities
FERPA and HIPAA program compliance

Contact Patti Weinberg, RPA, MPS, Vice President, Medicaid/State Health Care Assessment, at 516-209-5617 or visit us at www.ipro.org