With respect to the payment aspect of your question, what we've been able to do with our contractor, Medavie Blue Cross, is to have providers register with the provider. The person who's accessing the benefit, say the veterans independence program, won't be paying out of his own pocket if he's using a registered provider. Rather, the provider would be reimbursed by our contracted administrator. We've been able to work with Medavie to ensure that clients won't be out of pocket when they're using registered providers.
On May 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.