# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 09 — Medical Care Programs

### Chapter 40 — Early Intervention Services Coordination

#### Regulation .05 Limitations.

*COMAR 10.09.40.05*

A. Early intervention service coordination is advisory in nature.

B. A restriction may not be placed on a qualified participant’s option to receive early intervention service coordination.

C. Early intervention service coordination does not restrict or otherwise affect:

  (1) Eligibility for Title XIX benefits or other available benefits or programs;

  (2) The freedom of a participant's parent or family to select from all available services for which the participant is found to be eligible;

  (3) A participant's parent or family's free choice among qualified providers, in the participant's behalf; or

  (4) A provider's right to bill the Program for other covered Program services.

D. Early intervention service coordination may not be:

  (1) Provided as an integral and inseparable part of another covered Program service;

  (2) Provided as an administrative function necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the State's Medical Assistance plan;

  (3) Rendered in connection with the implementation of §1915(b) or (c) of the Social Security Act; or

  (4) Delivered as part of institutional discharge planning.

E. Reimbursement may not be made for early intervention service coordination if a participant is receiving a comparable case management service under another Program authority.

F. A participant’s service coordinator may not be the participant’s parent.