Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 10 - MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Part 2
Subtitle 09 - MEDICAL CARE PROGRAMS
Chapter 10.09.56 - Home and Community-Based Services Waiver for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Section 10.09.56.14-1 - Covered Services - Intensive Therapeutic Integration Services

Universal Citation: MD Code Reg 10.09.56.14-1

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 19, September 20, 2024

A. Intensive therapeutic integration services under this regulation:

(1) Are provided at a nonresidential setting separate from the home or facility where the participant lives;

(2) Shall have an on-site direct care worker for every participant receiving one-to-one interventions for intensive therapeutic integration;

(3) Shall include expressive therapies and therapeutic recreational activities;

(4) Shall include the development of socialization skills, enhancement of self-esteem, and behavior management;

(5) Are for participants who require one-to-one interventions and also have problems with socialization, isolation, hyperactivity, impulse control, and behavioral or other related disorders;

(6) Are not solely educational or recreational in nature, but have a therapeutic habilitative orientation, as evidenced in written progress notes;

(7) Shall be culturally competent and congruent with the participant's cultural norms;

(8) Shall assure coordination with the participant's other service providers, service coordinator, and multidisciplinary team;

(9) Shall be based on the participant's individualized written treatment plan that identifies goals of the specific therapeutic activities provided;

(10) Shall provide:
(a) General therapeutic and therapeutic recreational services;

(b) Behavioral management;

(c) Planning for crises with the participant during a session;

(d) Socialization groups; and

(e) One or more of art, music, dance, or activity therapies, as appropriate for participants;

(11) Shall have a supervisor who has been trained in accordance with Regulation . 04E(3) of this chapter that:
(a) Trains and provides ongoing supervision to the direct care worker rendering therapeutic integration services;

(b) Supervises the direct care worker when crisis intervention services are rendered to evaluate the nature of the crisis and intervenes to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence;

(c) Plans and regularly reviews the participant's therapeutic activities and behavior plan;

(d) Meets regularly with the participant and family and observes the participant in the community setting;

(e) Develops intervention on an individualized basis and identifies the interventions on an individualized treatment plan; and

(f) Identifies, in the treatment plan, the goals and tasks that the intensive therapeutic integration direct care worker is implementing; and

(12) Shall, when transportation is provided:
(a) Have individualized goals for transportation for the participant on the participant's treatment plan; and

(b) Document the start and stop times transportation is provided for each day that a participant is transported.

B. A unit of service is a 30-minute increment of service rendered to a participant by a qualified provider in the community setting.

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