Case management, Medicaid, or assessment is unresolved
Complete assessment and review funding level
Prepare for the SIS-A, ANSQ, and individual follow-up and preserve the resulting reports and funding notice.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Understand the DD assessment processBefore you start
- Current daily-living, community, learning, employment, health, safety, social, behavioral, medical, legal, interpreter, situational, and major-life-change information plus people who know the person well.
Who to contact
Start with the BHDDH Eligibility Unit or assigned conflict-free case manager. Use the complete notice for an appeal and the BHDDH Quality Assurance hotline or 911 for the applicable safety route.
Step by step
- Confirm whether the current process is the annual two-step process or the three-step process used at initial enrollment, every five years, or sooner after a major change.
- Invite people who know the person well, provide concrete support examples, and preserve the SIS-A and ANSQ information.
- Use the individual follow-up to correct or add information and request the written summary and funding-level result.
Expected next
An assessment appointment, SIS-A and ANSQ completion, individual follow-up, summary report, or funding-level event.
Save this proof
Preparation notes, attendees, assessment records, corrections, summary, funding notice, and contacts.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask the assessor and case manager to identify the unfinished assessment step, missing evidence, and next written event.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Complete assessment and review funding level 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 Understand the DD assessment process, Review DD provider tools, FY26 rates, and funding levels
Official resources
Limits
Assessment results inform support need and funding level but do not themselves establish Medicaid LTSS, a final plan, service authorization, provider acceptance, worker readiness, or start.
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.