Pa. Code 5240.5

Service description

This section requires an Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) agency to submit a written service description to the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services as part of its initial licensing application, covering details such as services offered, target populations, admission and discharge criteria, staffing ratios, treatment modalities, and service locations. The agency must also submit an updated service description whenever its services change or the existing description becomes inaccurate. This is an administrative/licensing requirement governing IBHS agencies, which provide ABA and other intensive behavioral health services primarily to children, youth, and young adults.

55 Pa. Code § 5240.5 - Service description 

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(a)
 As part
 of the initial licensing application, the IBHS agency shall submit to the
 Department for review and approval a written description of services to be
 provided that includes the following:
(1)

 Identification and description of each service offered by the IBHS
 agency.

(2)
 Identification of the
 target population served by each service, including age range and presenting
 issues, which may include specific diagnoses.

(3)
 The days and hours each service is
 available.

(4)
 Identification of
 the counties where the IBHS agency provides each service.

(5)
 Description of admission
 criteria.

(6)
 Description of
 discharge criteria.

(7)
 Description
 of exclusionary criteria.

(8)

 Staffing ratios for each service offered by the IBHS agency.

(9)
 Treatment modalities.

(10)
 Locations where services are
 offered.

(11)
 Maximum number of
 children, youth or young adults served at the same time through group services
 at a community setting or a community like setting.

(b)
 Prior to the IBHS agency changing its
 services or if the information in the service description is otherwise no
 longer accurate, the IBHS agency shall submit an updated service description to
 the Department for review and approval.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5240.5

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.23
 (relating to service
 provision); and 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.42
 (relating to agency
 records).

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