The following RSYC services for youth are billable on a per unit basis. See Section 250.100 for unit definitions and reimbursement methodology. See Section 262.000 for billing instructions.

Diagnosis and Evaluation

This service provides assessment of the nature and extent of a youth's physical, emotional, educational and behavioral problems, and provides recommendations for treatment strategies to remedy the identified problems. Allowable components include social assessment, psychological assessment, psychiatric evaluation, consultation with a referring agency, and a medical evaluation if the assessment indicates a physical association with the emotional and/or behavioral problem(s).

Individual Therapy (includes family therapy with youth and consultation with referral source)

This service provides for a therapeutic relationship between the client and a qualified therapist for the purpose of accomplishing, through the use of various counseling techniques, specific changes that are identified as goals in plan of care.

Group Therapy

A direct service contact between a group of patients and a qualified therapist for the purpose of accomplishing changes that are identified as goals in the case plan through the use of various counseling techniques.

Emergency Shelter Services

This residential service provides services for youth whose circumstances or behavioral problems necessitate immediate removal from their homes, or for youth released from youth service facilities who need temporary placement in the community until long-term residential arrangements can be made. Services include additional evaluation of the nature and extent of a youth's emotional and behavioral problems, including social assessment, psychological evaluation, psychiatric evaluation and consultation with the referring agency, and interventions to address the youth's emotional and behavioral problems.

Therapeutic Foster Care

This residential service provides intensive therapeutic care for youth. The service is provided in family homes that operate within a comprehensive residential treatment system or as an adjunct to a mental health treatment program and for which a fee is paid to specially trained foster families. Individuals who receive this service have physical, emotional, or behavioral problems, which cannot be remedied in their own home, in a routine foster parenting situation or in a residential program.

Therapeutic Group Home

This residential service provides twenty-four hour per day intensive therapeutic care provided in a small group home setting for youth with emotional and/or behavior problems, which cannot be remedied by less intensive treatment, as diagnosed by a qualified professional. This program is offered to prepare a juvenile for less intensive treatment, independent living or to return to the community.

Residential Treatment * (excluding room and board)

This residential service provides twenty-four hour per day treatment service available for up to one year for a youth whose emotional and/or behavioral problems, as diagnosed by a qualified professional, cannot be remedied in his or her own home. Residential treatment services require the formulation and implementation of an individualized treatment plan with time-framed, measurable objectives for each youth.

* Residential facilities providing RSYC services for youth must meet the Minimum Licensing Standards for Child Welfare Agencies issued by the Child Welfare Agency Review Board and the Arkansas Department of Human Services.