Rhode Island action guide · Verified July 29, 2026
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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 process

Before 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.

Contact the BHDDH Division of Developmental Disabilities

Step by step

  1. 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.
  2. Invite people who know the person well, provide concrete support examples, and preserve the SIS-A and ANSQ information.
  3. 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.

Checked sources

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