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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 10.09.40.05" title_num="10" subtitle_num="09" chapter_num="40" heading="Limitations.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Early intervention service coordination is advisory in nature.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A restriction may not be placed on a qualified participant’s option to receive early intervention service coordination.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Early intervention service coordination does not restrict or otherwise affect:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Eligibility for Title XIX benefits or other available benefits or programs;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The freedom of a participant's parent or family to select from all available services for which the participant is found to be eligible;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>A participant's parent or family's free choice among qualified providers, in the participant's behalf; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>A provider's right to bill the Program for other covered Program services.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Early intervention service coordination may not be:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Provided as an integral and inseparable part of another covered Program service;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Provided as an administrative function necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the State's Medical Assistance plan;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Rendered in connection with the implementation of §1915(b) or (c) of the Social Security Act; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Delivered as part of institutional discharge planning.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Reimbursement may not be made for early intervention service coordination if a participant is receiving a comparable case management service under another Program authority.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A participant’s service coordinator may not be the participant’s parent.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>