Section 9007.

"Care or case management services" means:

(a) Client assessment, in conjunction with the development of a service plan with the participant and appropriate others, to provide for needs identified by the assessment.

(b) Authorization and arrangement for the purchase of services, or referral, with follow-up, to volunteer, informal, or third-party payer services.

(c) Service and participant monitoring to determine that services obtained were appropriate to need, adequate to meet the need, of acceptable quality, and provided in a timely manner.

(d) Followup with clients, including periodic contact and initiation of an interim assessment, if deemed necessary prior to scheduled reassessment.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1097, Sec. 13. Effective January 1, 1997.)