Case management services include referral, coordination, assessment, and linkage services provided for people who are at risk for neglect, exploitation or abuse. The services assist people
in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services and encourages the use of cost-effective medical care by referrals to appropriate providers.
Eligible recipient include adults who are at risk or show evidence of abuse, neglect, or exploitation as defined in G.S. 108A-101 or children who are at risk or show evidence of abuse or neglect as defined in G.S. 7A-517.
County departments of social services provide these services.
Representative activities include: evaluation of need, development of an individual plan of care, coordination of services included in the plan of care and monitoring of services for quality and effectiveness.
Case management services are optional. Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program requires that states offer these services, if medically necessary, to children up to age 21. |