New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 73 - CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Subchapter 2 - ADULT CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM/MENTAL HEALTH (CMP/MH)
Section 10:73-2.7 - Service responsibilities of staff members of the adult CMP/MH provider
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 10:73-2.7
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) The case manager (CM) providing clinical case management services to adults shall:
1. Identify mentally ill beneficiaries in
need of CMP/MH services regardless of residence (for example: homeless,
shelter, family, boarding home);
2.
Provide clinical assessment of the beneficiary's strengths, needs, resources,
motivation, level of functioning, mental status, and risk category;
3. Provide functional assessment of the
beneficiary's skills (daily living, self-care, social, vocational, and other
skills);
4. Provide intensive
community based engagement services to maximize the beneficiary's access to
services and ability to function adequately and integrate into the
community;
5. Provide or arrange
for direct clinical intervention;
6. Provide assessment of the need for crisis
intervention, and assistance to providers of psychiatric emergency services in
resolving crises;
7. Provide
assessment of the beneficiary's substance abuse symptoms;
8. Provide assessment of available social
services, health and mental health resources and the ability of these services
to meet each beneficiary's needs;
9. Develop beneficiary individualized service
plans with the primary goal to motivate the beneficiary to access,
appropriately use, and remain in community programs;
10. Develop and monitor a plan for medication
management for the beneficiary in need of such a plan, in consultation with the
county mental health system's psychiatric services components;
11. Provide ongoing service planning and
periodic reviews and revisions of such plans;
12. Provide access to appropriate services,
and ensure the beneficiary receives needed transportation in order to attend
services;
13. Ensure that the
beneficiary engages in the community mental health and non-mental health
systems through provision of ongoing individualized clinical support and
monitoring;
14. Provide clinical
consultation with other providers in a beneficiary's network;
15. Coordinate and integrate services from
multiple providers until the beneficiary exits from the CMP/MH, which shall
include coordination of treatment team meetings of the service providers of a
beneficiary in the community.
16.
Monitor service delivery to meet a beneficiary's changing needs;
17. Identify resource gaps and problems of
service delivery, and advocate for the resolution of these issues;
18. Provide direct service support to the
beneficiary's natural support system, including family, friends, employers,
self-help and other natural support groups; and
19. Develop discharge plans, in conjunction
with other State or county psychiatric hospital or short-term care facility
treatment team members, for beneficiaries assessed as able or willing to access
or engage in necessary community mental health services after hospital
discharge.
(b) Services rendered while the beneficiary is an inpatient in a State or county psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit of a general acute care hospital shall not be billable activities.
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