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From the Director, Department of Family Care (DFC), requesting authorization to execute a contract with the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) to operate a Managed Care Organization (MCO) to provide the Family Care benefit to residents of Milwaukee County for the period January 1, through December 31, 2012, and to accept the funding thereunder.
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The State of Wisconsin authorized the long-term care program known as Family Care via enactment of 1999 Wisconsin Act 9. Milwaukee County was one of five pilot counties authorized to provide the family care benefit to eligible residents and Milwaukee County has provided the Family Care benefit to residents of Milwaukee County since July 2000, previously through the Milwaukee County Department on Aging and currently through the Milwaukee County Department of Family Care.