SECTION 340:100-5-15. Developmental Disabilities Services Division case manager activities

  Each person receiving Developmental Disabilities Services Division (DDSD) Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Waivers is assigned a case manager who ensures that individual needs are met through linkage, assessment, brokerage, advocacy, and monitoring activities. . The DDSD case manager:

(1)   completes or arranges necessary assessments to identify service recipient needs;

(2)   has overall responsibility for developing and updating the service recipient's Individual Plan (IP), per OAC 340:100-5-50 through 340:100-5-58, and Plan of Care;

(3)   describes service options in sufficient detail to ensure the service recipient, or parent or guardian, as applicable, is able to make an informed choice regarding services;

(4)   assists service recipients in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services and supports;

(5)   coordinates and monitors services delivered to determine their effectiveness in meeting the service recipient's needs;

(6)   has the authority to implement approved services prescribed in the service recipient's IP and access emergency or crisis services, per OAC 317:40 and OAC 340:100; and

(7)   documents case management services in Client Contact Manager (CCM).

[Source: Amended at 8 Ok Reg 2163, eff 5-13-91 (emergency); Amended at 9 Ok Reg 1549, eff 4-27-92; Amended at 22 Ok Reg 882, eff 5-12-05; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1046, eff 5-11-07]