Chesterfield County Public Schools is opposed to the proposed changes by the Department of Medical Assistance (DMAS) to the Local Education Agency Provider Manual. After reviewing the suggestive changes by DMAS, it seems that each area a school division can seek reimbursement for is affected. The most significant of these proposed changes are to the nursing and personal care services. By getting a physician to sign a Plan of Care for each student’s treatment (which could be 1 to 5 or more for each student) would be adding extra burden on the school division. Not to mention the physicians billing the school district for signatures. The wait time to get the signed Plan of Care back from the physician would be lost revenue.(Can’t bill for services until we get the signed POC back.) The nurse’s and the personal care assistants will be spending more time on paperwork than checking on their students health needs. Please reconsider these proposed changes and allow the current Local Education Agency Provider Manual stay in place.
Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) is opposed to the proposed changes to the Local Education Agency Provider Manual by the Department of Medical Assistance (DMAS). A school district the size of CCPS with over 7,000 Special Education students could be impossible to manage with the current staff we have available. Under the proposed changes to Nursing and Personal Care Services that would put CCPS over 15,000 Plans of Care to keep track of just for nursing and personal care. We would have to add on staff just to help with those two areas, with money we don’t have. Please reconsider these proposed changes and allow the current Local Education Agency Provider Manual stay in place.
