Addiction Awareness OSCA 11-036 response - REDACTED.pdf

OSCA 11-036 Treatment Court Specialized Service Providers
Addiction Awareness will work with clients alternative methods of payment prior to billing drug
court, including but not limited to, working with insurance carriers to gain approval for treatment
services provided. If a third party requires the member to pay any cost‐sharing (such as co‐payment,
coinsurance, or deductible) the treatment court shall pay the cost‐sharing amounts. The treatment
court’s liability for such cost‐sharing amounts shall not exceed the amount the treatment court would
have paid under Addiction Awareness llc’s price for the service. This Addiction Awareness LLC may
retain up to one hundred (100) percent of its third party collections if all of the following conditions
exist:
Total collections received do not exceed the total amount of Addiction Awareness llc's financial
liability for the participant.
There are no payments made by OSCA related to fee‐for‐service.
Such recovery is not prohibited by Federal or State law.
Program Services
2.1 Intake/Assessment
The program shall provide a face to face intake session with all participants within seven (7)
calendar days of the date of referral from the treatment court unless otherwise amended and/or
directed by the treatment court. Any exceptions will be documented in the client record.
This Addiction Awareness LLC’s assessment will be, at a minimum:
Be completed by a qualified substance abuse professional (QSAP),
Include screening for an individuals history of trauma and current personal safety,
Identify information including, but not limited to, name, age, sex, race, sexual orientation
and presenting problem,
Include addiction severity index,
Provide presenting situation,
Contain substance abuse history;
Contain social and family history;
Provide medical evaluation: HIV/STD/TB/ Risk and Service needs,
Contain educational and vocational history,
Contain treatment history including the date, length of stay, outcome and name of the
facility for all psychiatric and substance abuse services, and
Provide recommendation and clinical justification for the level of care of the treatment
services.
Addiction Awareness LLC will provide a face to face intake session with all participants within seven
(7) calendar days of the date of referral from the Drug Courts unless otherwise amended and/or
directed by the Drug Courts. Addiction Awareness has averaged a 2 day turn around since receiving
the contract, and goes to the county jail in Buchanan and Andrew to facilitate proper and quicker
referrals of those clients.
Upon admission, Addiction Awareness, LLC will administer an assessment to each client. This service
will include the following for clients admitted to outpatient programs;
A client’s probation officer will send a referral form to Addiction Awareness, LLC. Upon receipt of the
form, client will be contacted to set up the initial screening by telephone. At the conclusion of that
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