Mainstay - Proactively improving the health of people with developmental disabilities and the organizations that support them.

		Food Stamp Funding You may believe that your residential clients are receiving maximum food stamp benefits or that they are not entitled—this information is usually incorrect and we have demonstrated this for the past 20 years within both for-profit and nonprofit provider organizations. We successfully achieve maximum food stamp reimbursement—new or incremental—for people with developmental disabilities living in waiver settings. The impact of these funds on quality of life and provider financials is significant. There are no G and A expenses to dilute this reimbursement; the extra revenues can immediately improve food operations, programming, and your overall budgetary flexibility. Given today’s economic realities and budgetary constraints, the best agencies are calling on us to help them do what they don’t have the persistence, up-to-date expertise, or time to manage as well as we have repeatedly proven is possible. Our intimate knowledge and inability to be deflected, side-tracked or misinformed by food stamp officials cannot be duplicated by your internal staff—despite their best efforts. This is the reason we receive higher food stamp reimbursement levels for the same application, generate the funds faster, and are able to successfully reprocess food stamp requests when they have been previously denied. In every instance, our involvement has been advantageous on a net financial basis for astute providers working with us. There is no risk or upfront cost. We only charge when we’re successful, and only then a small fraction of the food stamp upside that you will realize into perpetuity on behalf of your consumers. Your only investment is approximately 1 to 2 hours per house to generate the data we need. Contrast that to the average amount of time agency staff spends on completing and filing forms for each customer applying for food stamps (2 to 3 hours per customer) without Mainstay. Reducing the time pressure on already stretched-thin staff, in an area that isn’t their expertise, is a prudent, strategic decision. The difference in food stamp revenues between applications filed by a supporting agency, compared to the average reimbursement level Mainstay achieves is an additional $50,000 per year for you and your consumers. For organizations not currently receiving food stamp monies, an additional $150,000 per year (for 100 residents) is the net benefit between the two approaches. Just last month we were in Washington to again meet with the top official of the nation’s food stamp program. While we didn’t think it was possible, we learned even more that will help us maximize benefits for your consumers who are entitled to this benefit—cash that immediately flows to your top line. We are glad to provide more tailored information for your specific needs. In today’s environment, it is the responsibility of provider organizations to capitalize on opportunities such as this that are risk-free and advantageous programmatically and financially, especially given the pressure you continually receive from any number of stakeholders to reduce costs and overhead. We can help—quickly, with unparalleled expertise, 20 years of success, and absolutely no upfront expense. Your consumers deserve this and are entitled to it. Click to complete a Fiore Partner Application.

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"Fiore holds great promise for helping people with developmental disabilities improve the quality of their health and life. It also offers significant potential benefits to support providers by promoting better nutrition, decreasing meal preparation time, increasing customer involvement, and reducing food costs."
Martin J. McCarthy, PhD; Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

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