Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 016 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES › Division 05 - Developmental Disabilities Services › Rule 016.05.18-004 - Early Intervention Day Treatment New 18

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
200.000 GENERAL INFORMATION
201.000 Introduction to Early Intervention
			 Day Treatment (EIDT)
Arkansas Code Annotated §§
										20-48-1101
				-1108, authorizes the use of a successor program for early intervention day
				treatment for children. The Department of Human Services, Division of
				Developmental Disabilities Services ("DDS") is responsible for the
				implementation, general administration, and oversight of the successor program
				for early intervention day treatment for children. Division of Provider
				Services and Quality Assurance (DPSQA) is responsible for certification and
				licensure criteria as the regulatory entity governing this successor
				program.
Child Health Management Services (CHMS) means an array of
				clinic services for children intended to provide full medical multidiscipline
				diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of developmental delays in Medicaid
				recipients who meet eligibility criteria and for whom the treatment has been
				deemed medically necessary.
Developmental Day Treatment Clinic Services (DDTCS) for
				children means early intervention day treatment provided to children by a
				nonprofit community program that is licensed to provide center-based community
				services by the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
For both CHMS and DDTCS for children, early intervention day
				treatment means services provided by a pediatric day treatment program run by
				early childhood specialists, overseen by a physician and serving children with
				developmental disabilities, developmental delays, and a medical
				condition.
For both CHMS and DDTCS for children, early intervention day
				treatment includes without limitation diagnostic, screening, evaluation,
				preventive, therapeutic, palliative, rehabilitative and habilitative services,
				including speech, occupational, and physical therapies and any medical or
				remedial services recommended by a physician for the maximum reduction of
				physical or mental disability and restoration of the child to the best possible
				functional level. Early Intervention day treatment is available year-round to
				children aged 0-6; and in the summer months for children aged 6-21.
CHMS, DDTCS for children or the successor programs constitute
				the State's early intervention day treatment program.
Successor program means a program that provides early
				intervention day treatment to children that is created to replace in whole the
				CHMS and DDTCS for children programs. For profit and nonprofit providers from
				CHMS and DDTCS programs may participate, conditioned on program
				compliance.
Early Intervention Day Treatment (EIDT) is the successor
				program under Ark. Code Ann. §§
										20-48-1101
				-1108.
Determination of underserved status for expansion of
				services
An expansion of early intervention day treatment services in a
				county is necessary when the Division of Developmental Disabilities Services
				determines that a county is underserved with regard to:
A. Early intervention day treatment services
			 as defined above; or
B. A specific
			 category of early intervention day treatment services currently offered to
			 children with developmental disabilities or delays.