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H05-048– Policy/Procedure

July 1, 2005

|TO: |Area Agency on Aging Directors |

|FROM: |Penny Black, Director, Home and Community Services Division |

|SUBJECT: |REVISED SENIOR INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE STANDARDS |

|Purpose: |The purpose of this MB is to issue the final revised Senior Information and Assistance Standards, formerly |

| |the Information and Assistance/Case Management Program Standards. |

|Background: |The Senior Information and Assistance Standards are the requirements for operating services with funding from|

| |ADSA. |

| |The program standards needed to be updated to reflect changes in technology, implementation of Washington |

| |Information Network (WIN) 2-1-1, and to clarify policy on various issues that have arisen since the standards|

| |were last updated in 1995. |

| |The revised I&A Standards were issued for comment in MB H05-010. The comments received were reviewed and |

| |where necessary changes were made and items were clarified based upon that feedback. |

|What’s new, changed, or |The revised standards reflect: |

|Clarified | |

| |Case Management references have been removed; |

| |The revision strives to bring the I&A system closer to Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS) |

| |Standards; |

| |Coordination with 2-1-1 and use of electronic database are incorporated; |

| |Follow up with vulnerable assistance clients is required; |

| |Ongoing training for staff and volunteers is required; |

| |An appendix for Medicaid Administrative Claiming is revised and added; |

| |Samples for Interagency Agreements and Resource Inclusion-Exclusion Policies also included in appendices. |

|ACTION: |Effective August 1, 2005, Area Agencies on Aging must implement the new standards in Senior I&A Programs. |

| |Medicaid Administrative Claiming by AAAs must comply effective with August 1, 2005 billings. |

|Related |AIRS Standards: |

|REFERENCES: |WIN211 website: |

|ATTACHMENT(S): |Attachment 1 Senior Information and Assistance Standards |

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| |Attachment 2 Medicaid Admin Claiming (Appendix A) |

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| |Attachment 3 Time Study Sheets (Appendix B) |

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| |Attachment 4 Sample Timesheet |

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| |Attachment 5 Sample Resource Database Inclusion-Exclusion Policy (Appendix C) |

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| |Attachment 6 Sample Interagency Agreement (Appendix D) |

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|CONTACT(S): |Susan Shepherd, Program Manager |

| |(360) 725-2418 |

| |shephsl@dshs. |

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