Enter the Budget Data

When a person needs additional support beyond the level of funding currently available in the PCSP Budget, the worker drafts a Request for services that illustrates what the new need is along with the amount of additional funding required to address it.  The conceptualization of that funding must be wrapped around the PCSP.  That is, the request must be formulated around the plan's duration (i.e. the amount of service needed in the active plan and the amount needed in the next plan cycle if the change will affect it.).  

Budget changes can consist of four different elements.  They are: requesting a brand new service, increasing the units / rate of an existing service, decreasing the units/rate of an existing service or completely eliminating a service from the PCSP.   Each type of change must be couched and presented within the framework of the person's plan cycle.

New Service

1. Requesting the budget for a New Service.   View the demonstration.  A new service is one the person currently does not have in the PCSP budget (or it is a special case for RHS and SEI where the units and the rate simultaneously diverge - that is, one goes up while the other goes down - see instructions for these cases).

Increase Rate and/or Units

2. Requesting the budget for an Increase in Rate and/or Units to an existing service on the PCSP Budget.  View the demonstration.  An increase in service happens when its rate, units or both increase over the amount currently prescribed in the PCSP Budget.  This scenario asks for (only) the change in the rate and/or the units.  No other conceptualization of the service's data is needed.

Decrease Rate and/or Units

3. Requesting the budget for a Decrease in Rate and/or Units to an existing service on the PCSP Budget in order to fund an increase in another.  View the demonstration.  A decrease in service happens when its rate, units or both are reduced from the amount currently prescribed in the PCSP Budget.  If the decrease needs to be incorporated into the request, then it can be added directly to the RFS Budget.  The service code’s criteria do have to addressed in the request when the service is being reduced.  No other conceptualization of the service's data is needed.

Eliminate Service

4. Requesting the Elimination of a service from the PCSP Budget in order to fund an increase in another.  View the demonstration.  This scenario simply asks for the amount of service that will be removed from the plan.    No other conceptualization of the service's data is needed.

Each of these scenarios come with a specific set of questions that are designed to help the worker determine what the impact of the change would be on the plan if it is approved.  Before the worker starts the data entry process, they need to determine which scenario fits the service they want to add to the request.  Then, the worker can start the data entry process.  See more information about the types of budget changes (i.e. new services, increases, decreases and eliminations) the questions that correspond to them.

Watch a demonstration about entering the budget data in the request.