Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Provider selected through this process will be required to align service delivery with SOC values and principles and ensure that care coordination is grounded in a strengths perspective, driven by underlying needs, supported by effective CFT process and determined by families. 2. Provider selected through this process will be required to maintain written documentation in the individual's personnel file that the director and all direct service provider staff including, but not limited to, volunteers, interns, and students, are in compliance with required criminal background checks and check for abuse or neglect as required by Title 5, Subtitle 5, Part V, of the Family Law Article of COMAR and COMAR 14.31.06.05. 3. Care coordinator supervisors and care coordinators will be required to participate in training related to standardized tools, as required by BHA or its designee. 4. Provider selected through this process must have a Medicaid provider agreement in effect, to include adherence to quality assurance, auditing, and monitoring policies and procedures. 5. Provider selected through this process must maintain general liability insurance, and provide proof of this insurance. 6. Provider selected through this process must make available to WCLBHA, BHA, the State Medicaid Authority, and federal funding agents all records, including but not limited to personnel files for each individual employed and financial, treatment, and service records for inspection and copying. 7. Provider selected through this process will be required to provide detail on behavioral health services provided by their organization as well as any relationship their organization has with any provider/provider entity and the structure/process or firewall they will use to avoid conflicts of interest, selfreferrals and the appearance of impropriety. The selected contractor will be subject to a continuing requirement to disclose should any such relationship develop or materially change at any time while serving as a /CCO. 8. Provider selected through this process will be required to be physically located in Somerset, Wicomico, or Worcester Counties. 9. Provider selected through this process will be expected to participate in all quality assurance, monitoring, and evaluation processes implemented by MDH, WCLBHA, or their contracted partners, and will provide data requested in a timely and comprehensive manner for all levels of care coordination. 10. Provider selected through this process will be expected to follow systems required by Medicaid, WCLBHA, or the Administrative Service Organization (ASO) for billing, utilization management, and quality assurance purposes.
