IRIS: What's New

Stay up to date with latest news and updates about the IRIS (Include, Respect, I Self-Direct) program.

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Updated toolkit helps IRIS participants talk with providers and vendors about enrolling with Medicaid

Many IRIS providers and vendors must enroll with Wisconsin Medicaid through the ForwardHealth Portal by January 1, 2026, to keep delivering IRIS services next year. The toolkit for IRIS participants is now updated with new and improved items to help explain the importance of enrolling.

See the updated IRIS Participant Toolkit for Adult Long-Term Care Provider Enrollment


Other news

FEA request for proposal

On June 5, 2025, DHS published a request for proposal (RFP) to procure fiscal employer agent (FEA) services for IRIS. The RFP is posted on eSupplier as S-1640 DMS-25. The RFP is open until 2 p.m. CT on August 1, 2025. Instructions for submitting questions and RFP responses are available on eSupplier. | June 2025

ICA expands services

First Person Care Consultants, an IRIS consultant agency (ICA), expanded their services to participants in Crawford, Grant, Green, Iowa, Juneau, Lafayette, Richland, and Sauk counties. | January 2025

IRIS waiver renewal

DHS is renewing the IRIS program waiver. This is a chance for us to make IRIS better between 2026 and 2031. We need input from IRIS participants, families and friends, caregivers and providers, IRIS contract staff, advocates, and other partners and support staff. | January 2025

Get involved in the Wisconsin IDD-MH System Improvement project

The project steering committee is getting ready to choose which of the 37 recommendations from the Wisconsin IDD-MH System Improvement Report (PDF) to start working on, and who will work on them. | December 2024

Adult Long-term Care Provider Management Project—enrollment now open

As of September 16, 2024, adult long-term care waiver services providers must enroll with Wisconsin Medicaid through the ForwardHealth Portal. | September 2024

Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) and IRIS

Electronic visit verification hard launch for personal care and certain supportive home care services (service codes T1019, T1020, S5125, S5126) began on May 1, 2023. | May 2023

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Last revised June 27, 2025