Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start
Verify rate, authorization, and start
Reconcile current final payment authority with the person's authorization and actual delivery readiness.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Open Montana's current DDP rate and billing hubBefore you start
- Exact service and code if supplied, approved PSP and cost plan, authorization, amount and frequency, current final rate or billing manual, provider or worker acceptance, training and payroll status, staffing, backup plan, proposed schedule, and billing questions.
Who to contact
Use the DDP Regional Office, Office of Public Assistance, Targeted Case Manager, provider, self-direction contact, Office of Administrative Hearings, crisis service, or APS route that owns this step.
Step by step
- Ask the TCM to identify the current authorization and controlling final rate or billing authority.
- Ask the provider or self-direction entities to confirm acceptance, onboarding, training, payroll or billing readiness, backup coverage, and proposed schedule.
- Treat the first delivered service and retained service record as completion.
Expected next
An authorization, payment clarification, accepted referral, onboarding completion, schedule, or first delivered service.
Save this proof
PSP, cost plan, authorization, current final payment evidence, responses, readiness records, schedule, and first-service record.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Escalate mismatched rate, authorization, or readiness facts to the TCM, Regional Office, and notice-specific route.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Verify rate, authorization, and start checklist
A Beyond Childhood planning aid derived from the cited official sources.
- Owner and program
- Date started
- Documents supplied
- Written result or confirmation
- Current open dependency
- Next event and date
- Escalation contact
Derived from Start Montana DDP eligibility and 0208 waiver access, Compare Montana DDP self-direction, Open Montana's current DDP rate and billing hub
Official resources
Limits
The rate hub currently labels a July 1, 2026 Developmental Disabilities Rates and Billing Manual as draft; it is not represented as final authority. A published rate is not an individual cost plan, authorization, provider payment, staffing plan, schedule, or start date.
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.