ACL Note: This comes to us from DOH. If you are not sure your work site has previously applied for access to the HCS, or who your HCS Coordinator is, you can contact the Commerce Account Management Unit (CAMU) Help Desk at 1-866-529-1890 or [email protected]
Good Afternoon,
The following message was sent out to Health Home and Health Home Care Management Agency staff located in New York City and who are assigned to the OMHCMH-01 Assessor role.
To support the Behavioral Health Managed Care Transition, New York State has created two assessment instruments. The first is the HARP/HCBS Eligibility Assessment, which is designed to identify individuals who are eligible for participation in a HARP and who may be eligible for HCBS. The second is the New York State Community Mental Health Assessment, which is a comprehensive, research-based, and validated instrument that will guide the development of strengths-based, person-centered care planning for those receiving HCBS.
Staff will use the Uniform Assessment – Community Mental Health (UA-CMH) Application to access and use the two instruments. The UA-CMH Application is a web-based application that is accessed through the Health Commerce System (HCS), a secure, web portal managed and maintained by the New York State Department of Health.
You have been assigned the OMHCMH-01 Assessor role by your organization. There are several steps that you must complete to begin conducting the New York State Community Mental Health assessments by October 1, 2015.
- Your HCS Coordinator must provision Trust Level 3 Assurance to your HCS User Account. Please note that Trust Level 3 Assurance will require a New York State Driver’s License or a New York State Non Driver’s Photo ID. The Trust Level 3 Assurance process is different than the multifactor authentication.
- You must complete the required online, self-paced courses associated with your assessor role before October 1, 2015 in order to begin conducting assessments by October 1, 2015. All courses are available in the UAS-NY Training Environment. Please see the Behavioral Health Managed Care Transition UAS-NY Support for Users document. This document provides information to help you access the UAS-NY Training Environment and the UA-CMH Application.
If you have questions regarding your HCS account please contact CAMU at 1-866-529-1890 . Question pertaining to Trust Level 3 Assurance should be directed to your HCS Coordinator within your organization.
UAS-NY Training Environment questions should be directed to the UAS-NY Support desk at 518-408-1021 or [email protected]
Thank You,
NYSDOH Health Home Program