Workplace Inclusion Consulting

Advisory Board/Commissions

Commonwealth Care Alliance

DPC has worked for years with CCA to provide feedback on how they can better meet the needs of their 20,000+ members with complex physical, sensory, and mental health disabilities.

Centene National Disability Advisory Council

DPC has two representatives on this council, which advises Centene (the nation’s largest Medicaid managed care provider) on both how to better serve its members with disabilities across the country and how to use its Government Relations capacity to advocate for policies that will benefit people with disabilities.

Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Health Equity Advisory Group

This group was convened at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic to advise the state on how to make its pandemic response more equitable. For over a year, DPC, advised DPH on a wide variety of critical and often life-threatening issues impacting people with disabilities. Among the direct results of our participation in this committee were the prioritization of certain individuals with disabilities for vaccination before the general public, the creation of in-home vaccination programs and the provision of ASL interpreters at mass vaccination sites, and the improvement of data collection practices in both the community and congregate settings.

Massachusetts Health Policy Commission Advisory Board

DPC’s Executive Director Colin Killick serves on this board, which advises HPC on its efforts to control the cot of healthcare in Massachusetts. Subjects on which DPC’s advice has significantly shifted HPC policy include pharmaceutical pricing and cost effectiveness analysis, the use of AI in prior authorization decisions, and the importance of investing in peer supports.

MA Governor’s Housing Advisory Council

DPC is the sole representative of the disability community on this new body, created by Governor Healey to advise on the creation of the state’s first Housing Plan. DPC’s particular area of focus in this process is on promoting the development of more affordable, accessible, integrated housing and on the expansion of housing vouchers for individuals with disabilities.

MA COIVD-19 Crisis Standards of Care Committee

After leading successful efforts to overturn Massachusetts first two COVID-19 Crisis Standards of Care policies because they deprioritized individuals with disabilities, DPC joined the committee which wrote the third and final version of the Crisis Standards, which both removed discriminatory rationing criteria and built in critical civil rights protections for disabled patients.

Federal Office of Rural Health Policy Delphi Panel

Advised this group on particular issues impacting rural people with disabilities, such as lack of access to medical providers and accessible public transportation.

National Advisory Board – National Center for Social and Complex Medical Needs/Camden Coalition

This groups supports strategy and planning for the National Center for Social and Complex Medical Needs/Camden Coalition as well as support in planning their annual conference, reviewing materials, and providing input on strategic direction.

MassHealth

DPC representatives participate in a number of MassHealth boards including Quality Measure Integration which looks a integrating quality measures for Medicaid and commercial plans and the DSRIP – ACO advisory committee.

Advancing Health Equity Advisory Committee

This group brings state teams (Medicaid, managed care organizations, health plans, health care delivery organizations, and community-based organizations) together to develop and implement payment reform that supports and incentivizes care transformation that addresses medical and social needs to advance health equity, within an anti-racist culture of equity.

National Committee for Quality Assurance

Serves on committees relevant to assessing and advancing health care quality for people with disabilities.