shall develop a proposal.
[(c) The department shall issue the solicitation for a
Statewide or regional full-risk brokerage model within one
hundred eighty days after the effective date of this subsection.
(d) The department may not enter into a contract with a
broker under subsection (b) prior to the completion of the
analysis required under subsection (e).]
(e) [Prior to the implementation of the full-risk brokerage
model, the] The department, in coordination with the Department
of Transportation and the Department of Aging, shall commission
an analysis that provides at a minimum the following:
(1) An analysis of current Federal and State law,
regulations and policies controlling the nonemergency medical
transportation and other human services transportation programs
administered in the Commonwealth, including the authorized
methods of delivery and limitations or restrictions imposed on
the methods of delivery.
(2) An analysis of the effectiveness and efficiency of the
current nonemergency transportation service delivery as it
relates to all human service programs in this Commonwealth.
(3) A review of other states' models of delivering
nonemergency medical and other human services transportation,
including the number of other states that utilize a full-risk
brokerage model and the effect a brokerage model has had on
public transit in those states.
(4) An analysis of the positive and negative impact of
maintaining the current transportation delivery model versus
implementing a full-risk brokerage model as it relates to the
State and local government entities, including financial impact.
(5) An analysis of the impact on consumers, including an
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