Choosing services, providers, payment, or a start
Confirm payment, authorization, and start
Separate MCO capitation, the member-centered plan or IRIS individual budget, service authorization, provider or worker readiness, and actual start.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Family Care MCO capitation ratesBefore you start
- Exact service, program, current payment authority, member-centered plan or IRIS service plan, individual budget when applicable, authorization, provider or worker response, onboarding, staffing, and proposed start.
Who to contact
Start with the local ADRC or Tribal ADRS. After enrollment, use the selected MCO care team or IRIS consultant agency and fiscal employer agent. For an adverse action, use the exact notice and program-specific rights route.
Step by step
- Identify the selected program and the exact service, plan, budget, and authorization state.
- For managed care, do not treat the MCO's capitation payment as the person's service rate or authorization; for IRIS, reconcile the individual budget and approved service plan.
- Obtain provider or worker acceptance, completed onboarding, staffing or schedule confirmation, and an actual start date separately.
Expected next
A reconciled record of plan or budget, authorization, provider or worker readiness, schedule, and actual start.
Save this proof
Payment source and effective date, plan, IRIS budget when applicable, authorization, provider or worker response, onboarding, schedule, and start.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask the MCO care team or IRIS consultant and fiscal employer agent which layer remains unresolved and request a written next event.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Confirm payment, 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 Being a Full Partner in Family Care and Partnership, Family Care MCO capitation rates, IRIS manuals, service-plan policy, and participant resources, IRIS forms, grievances, appeals, and budget requests, IRIS help, consultant agencies, and fiscal employer agents
Official resources
Limits
MCO capitation rates pay MCOs and are not an individual rate, budget, quote, or authorization. An IRIS budget is individual but does not itself prove provider acceptance, worker readiness, staffing, 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.