Programs and Agencies
CFTSS or HCBS
Eligibility and Enrollment
Fun Facts
100

This state department oversees our entire program, including Chhuny.

What is the Department of Health (DOH)?

100

This "service" although comes in slightly different names, is offered under both CFTSS and HCBS

What is Family Support?

CFTSS: Family Peer Support

HCBS: Caregiver Family Support Services

100

After someone is enrolled, this is how often they need their eligibility for Health Homes assessed, except for 2+Chronic Conditions eligibility.

What is yearly?

Bonus: yearly to the date of first eligibility screen/signature on Qualifying Conditions.

100

This letter does not appear in the spelling of any state in the U.S.

What is Q?

200

This organization served up to 600 children in the 1800s and was known as the Albany Orphen Asylum, before it's current name adopted in 1976.

What is Parson's Child and Family Center?

200

These forms are required when completing a referral to CFTSS, they document the child's need for the services as determined by an LPHA. These forms are not required for HCBS.

What are the Medical Necessity Forms?

200

This agency should be listed on the top line of the DOH 5201 list of providers as the Care Management Agency

Who is Parsons Child and Family Center?

200

The Maldives are located in this ocean.

What is the Indian Ocean?

300

This committee stands for Single Point of Access, each county has one and is utilized to connect families to appropriate programming.

What is S.P.O.A.?

300

Medicaid is required for this category of services, however Care Management is not required.

What is CFTSS?

300

A child attends a BOCES program for behavioral needs, this is how many DOH 5203 (school consents) should be signed.

Two; one for BOCES and one for the Home district 


Any child attending an out of district program has a home district paying/monitoring for that program (usually has CSE involvement).

other examples: Neil Hellman Day Treatment, and child being transported to a neighboring district with a classroom that meets their needs

300

This local community refers to is generational locals as "Sloughters."

What is Schoharie?

400

This department is overseen by OCFS and provides various programs including Public Assistance, Temporary Assistance, Unemployment, Medicaid, Child and Adult Protective Services, Foster Care and Child Support, among others.

What is the Department of Social Services?


400

When a child is receiving HCBS, this organization needs to receive the 5201 (or 5055) and the updated Plan of Care.

What is the Managed Care Organization?

Ex: Fidelis, CDPHP, Excellus, MVP

400

This is a type of eligibility for Health Homes where the criteria is a confirmation of a Mental Health Disorder with a billable code with the words "serious emotional disturbance" and proof of functional limitations signed on the same form by an LPHA.

What is SED Eligibility?

400

A dentist helped create this sugar-sweet in 1897, originally calling it "fairy floss."

What is cotton candy?

500

This is who you would call or set up an appointment online, in order to get transportation arranged for a client for medical appointments. 

What is MAS? Medical Answering Service

medanswering.com

1-855-852-3287

500

This is who decides which organization is referred for services, CFTSS and/or HCBS.

Who is the child and family?

"Freedom of Choice"

500

When a child opens to Health Homes this is the order the documentation IS REQUIRED to be completed in.

What is the CANS, then Comprehensive Assessment, then Safety/Crisis and Emergency Assessments then the Plan of Care.

500
Thomas Edison founded a company in this city, and it would come to be known as The General Electric Company.

What is Schenectady?