Choosing services, providers, payment, or a start
Find and verify providers or workers
Use the applicable MCO directory or IRIS worker and vendor route, then verify capacity, qualification, safeguards, and fit directly.
Official sources checked 2026-07-29
Start here
Family Care, Partnership, and PACE member helpBefore you start
- Exact service, plan or budget state, geography, schedule, accessibility and communication needs, risks, setting, transportation, staffing, backup needs, and quality questions.
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
- For managed care, use the selected MCO's current provider directory and care team; for IRIS, use consultant and fiscal-employer guidance for allowed providers or participant-hired workers.
- Review applicable qualification, background-check, contract, license, or certification information.
- Ask each candidate about intake, capacity, staffing, safeguards, experience, corrective history, backup coverage, and fit.
Expected next
A documented candidate list, direct answers, selected provider or worker, onboarding event, or written access gap.
Save this proof
Candidates, source links and dates, direct responses, questions, qualification records, onboarding steps, and next dates.
If this stalls or the answer is no
Ask the care team or IRIS consultant for additional lawful options and document the access gap when no provider or worker can start.
Beyond Childhood planning aid
Find and verify providers or workers 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 Family Care, Partnership, and PACE member help, Family Care managed care organizations, 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
A directory, scorecard, contract, license, certification, or completed worker form does not prove current capacity, acceptance, safety, quality, fit, authorization, 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.