Submitting a new site assessment
Prior to approving a service on a participant's plan, service coordinators and personal agents should ensure that the service is approved for the location being requested. If the service is job coaching within general community businesses, please ensure the provider has an assessment reflecting this service (although there may not be an assessment for each community business in which the service is provided).
For individuals participating in some employment services, we understand that the participant will travel between multiple sites for additional training, experience and exploration; in these instances, it is the provider's responsibility to ensure that the participant is authorized for the appropriate service and that each site that the individual receives services in is assessed for the appropriate service description.
As a reminder, participants must be approved for any service received prior to starting that service. Billing will not be approved when a participant receives a service that they have not previously been authorized for.
Questions
Questions may be addressed to
employment.first@odhsoha.oregon.gov.
Providers must submit a site survey for all provider-owned, operated or controlled locations where they offer either Employment Services of Day Support Activities (DSA or facility-based Community Living Supports). (See
AR-16-019)
For providers offering Individual Supported Employment (i.e., Job Coaching), small group, employment path or DSA in general community businesses (not at a provider site), then only one survey describing the service must be submitted for each type of service. The service descriptions for these assessments should also include examples of the general community businesses in which these services will be provided. Completion of an assessment must never delay a person's acceptance of a job offer from a general community business. If services are in a general community business, then the provider needs to complete the assessment within 30 days of delivering the employment service.