Arkansas action guide · Verified July 29, 2026
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Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start

Compare Arkansas PASSE and provider responsibilities

Choose a PASSE when eligible and distinguish care coordination from provider delivery.

Official sources checked 2026-07-29

Start here

Use Arkansas PASSE beneficiary support

Before you start

  • Medicaid and PASSE status, current PASSE choices, care coordinator, approved PCSP and services, provider needs, network options, safeguards, schedule, backups, and questions.

Who to contact

Use the correct DDS, Medicaid, PASSE care coordinator, provider, notice-specific appeal route, crisis service, or APS route that owns this step.

Contact Arkansas DDS Intake and Referral

Step by step

  1. Confirm whether PASSE enrollment and a choice period apply.
  2. Compare PASSE care coordination and network information with each provider's delivery responsibilities.
  3. Document the choice, PCSP, referral, authorization, provider response, and every readiness dependency.

Expected next

PASSE selection, care-coordinator assignment, PCSP event, referral, provider response, or readiness plan.

Save this proof

Choices, selection proof, PCSP, authorization, referrals, contacts, and backup plan.

If this stalls or the answer is no

Use PASSE beneficiary support or the Ombudsman to resolve enrollment or coordination problems.

Beyond Childhood planning aid

Compare Arkansas PASSE and provider responsibilities checklist

A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.

  • Owner and program
  • Date started
  • Documents supplied
  • Written result
  • Open dependency
  • Next event and date
  • Escalation contact

Derived from Understand Arkansas PASSE care coordination, Use Arkansas PASSE beneficiary support, Open the Arkansas CES provider list

Official resources

Limits

PASSE choice does not prove CES eligibility, a waiver slot, authorization, provider capacity, staffing, schedule, quality, or service start. No participant-directed CES option is represented without a current official consumer source.

Beyond Childhood’s checklists and prompts are planning aids derived from official sources. They are not official forms, legal advice, eligibility decisions, or guarantees of funding, capacity, quality, or service.

Checked sources

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