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Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start

Confirm rate, funding, authorization, and start

Separate current payment authority and rate work from person-specific funding, authorization, readiness, and delivery.

Official sources checked 2026-07-29

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Track New Hampshire DD rate-system work

Before you start

  • Exact service, provider model, current payment authority, assessment and funding record, ISA, individual authorization, provider response, operational requirements, schedule, backups, and proposed start.

Who to contact

Use the official Area Agency, DHHS, NH EASY, service-coordination, provider, complaint, hearing, crisis, or protective-report route that owns this step.

Find the correct New Hampshire Area Agency

Step by step

  1. Identify the currently effective payment authority for the exact service and provider model.
  2. Confirm the person's assessment, funding, ISA service amount, and authorization separately.
  3. Obtain provider acceptance or PDMS operational readiness, schedule, backup, and first delivered service separately.

Expected next

A reconciled record of payment authority, person-specific funding and authorization, provider readiness, schedule, and first delivery.

Save this proof

Payment source, funding record, ISA, authorization, responses, onboarding, schedule, and start.

If this stalls or the answer is no

Ask the service coordinator which exact payment, funding, authorization, provider, or operational layer remains unresolved.

Beyond Childhood planning aid

Confirm rate, funding, 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 Review the approved New Hampshire DD Waiver, Use New Hampshire developmental-services provider resources, Track New Hampshire DD rate-system work

Official resources

Limits

New Hampshire's rate system is changing. A published rate, model, or implementation update is not an individual budget, authorization, provider quote or commitment, staffing plan, 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.

Checked sources

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