The situation is rare in which a provider and family generate an FSC only goal. It usually occurs when a child is a late referral (enrollment after 33 months) or has many services in the community. PIC responsibility is to still provide an evaluation for eligibility, coordination of care, and transition to ASD only. This fulfills guidance from the State to provide children who come in as a late referral with the family service coordination.
If needed, providers in consultation with the family will decide on a Family Service Coord goal, and set clear expectations for what will occur. Providers will need to take into consideration all the timeline variables depending on when the child is enrolled and what the needs are of the child. For children who are late referrals, providers will need to consider all the transition activities that need to take place within 45 days, or by discharge.
Providers, Health Information and Data Entry will work together to assure appropriate information is shared in the RT provider dashboard, SDB data entry and billing are timely and accurate data.
Workflow for IFSP with FSC-only goal:
- Providers will consult with their manager that there is a single goal of FSC on this child’s IFSP.
- Managers will support providers because although infrequent, if FSC-only goal occurs there is no need for a POC and to support staff with meeting transition timeline expectations.
- The goal will not be duplicated by the provider in a POC. Staff will not generate a POC (no need for a doctor to sign off on/prescribe this service).
- Data Entry Staff look at every IFSP and will be the first to see the FSC-only goals, and will inform HIT team to make a 'dummy POC'.
- HIT will create a Group 12 alert and a 'dummy POC' related to the PSP's case for the child with an end date that aligns with IFSP's six month review date.