Choosing delivery, providers, payment, or a start
Find and verify ECF providers
Use the MCO's ECF network resources, then directly verify service, capacity, quality, safeguards, and fit.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Review ECF CHOICES groups, eligibility, and servicesBefore you start
- MCO, ECF group, exact authorized service, county and setting, schedule, communication and accessibility needs, health and behavior supports, staffing, transportation, backup needs, and quality questions.
Who to contact
Use the official TennCare, MCO, DDA regional intake, LTSS Help Desk, Beneficiary Support System, crisis, or protective-reporting route that owns this step.
Step by step
- Ask the MCO support coordinator for current in-network candidates for the exact service.
- Confirm network participation and person-specific authorization separately.
- Ask each provider about intake, capacity, staffing, safeguards, experience, backup coverage, quality, and fit.
Expected next
A candidate list, direct responses, selected provider, intake event, or documented network gap.
Save this proof
Directory or MCO results and dates, candidates, responses, referrals, intake, and decisions.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask the MCO and LTSS Help Desk for more candidates and document any network or access gap.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Find and verify ECF providers 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 Use Tennessee ECF CHOICES application help, Review ECF CHOICES groups, eligibility, and services, Contact Tennessee LTSS
Official resources
Limits
A network listing, credential, or referral does not prove current capacity, acceptance, safety, quality, fit, authorization, staffing, schedule, 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.