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9/28/21  10:27 am
Commenter: Rebecca Cash, Valley Community Services Board

ACT Appendix E
 

p. 17- "ACT services other than the comprehensive needs assessment or psychiatric evaluation may not be provided until both the comprehensive needs assessment and psychiatric evaluation are completed. " This is challenging for many small providers with limited qualified psychiatric providers to conduct the psychiatric evaluation on the same day as the intake. Please consider allowing a grace period or a specific amount of time (within 7 days of intake, for example) where reimbursement for services in the mean time can still occur. Otherwise, this may create an unintended delay in individual accessing needed services and there is significant potential for providers to lose revenue for services provided. 

 

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