How Do I Make My Agency a Supported Employment Service Provider Agency?

We can discussjob development and job coaching responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements with your agency. This includes the various programming and staff make up of a CRP. 

Once your agency can meet the needs for job developing and/ or job coaching services, we notify our RM. 

For partnership consideration, your agency must complete:

• a W-9 form
• the Criminal Background form
• a Child and Dependent Adult Abuse check form

You must email the completed forms to us. Not sending all three completed forms will result in your agency not becoming a provider.

We will complete the process and let the local office know the results.

Your agency must have professional liability insurance coverage. 

If your agency is also providing work-based learning services, it must also have workers compensation coverage. 

It's your agency's responsibility to maintain insurance coverage at all times and provide up to date proof of coverage. 

Your agency must send or email us:

• A copy of your agency's professional liability insurance
• A copy of your agency's worker's compensation coverage (if applicable)

All your staff who work in the direct services, billing, and claims with us must:

• Watch all the modules on the MOS Training Modules
• Pass the CRP MOS quiz
• Read through the CRP MOS Manual
• Sign and return the Acknowledgement of Understanding page in the manual to us

We need proof of your agency's process and policies, especially those surrounding:

• Your agency's ability to follow our billings, claims policies, and documentation expectations
• Your agency's handling of the following agency and staff expectations:
  1. Verification of your agency's support for the state's Employment First Philosophy
  2. Verification of each of your staff's training and credential to provide services for us
  3. Verification of each of your staff's ongoing training and tracking of continuing education units
  4. Verification of each staff's professional liability coverage
  5. Before starting services with us, verify that all your staff has passed:
     1. a criminal background check
     2. a child and dependent adult background check

Upon receipt of paperwork listed in steps 1 - 4, our RM and attorney work together to approve your agency as an employment support provider. 

Our RM will start the contracting process. Your agency's authorized authority who is able to enter your agency into a contractual agreement with us must sign it along with our Administrator. The provider should include their proposed service(s) from the MOS and the city or county area(s) of service. 

We do not negotiate fees for services on the MOS. All fees for services mirror the Iowa Medicaid Employment service fees.

Once a contract is signed, our RM will notify the local office and your agency so that authorizations for services can begin immediately. 

The responsibility for ongoing partnership activities including marketing of CRP services and authorization for services is between your agency and the local VR office.

You may choose to receive your pay via electronic funds transfer (EFT).

Please complete the Direct Deposit Authorization form. Follow directions on the form and mail it to:

Department Admin Services-State Accounting Enterprise Attention: EFT Administrator

Hoover State Office Building, 3rd FL

Des Moines, IA 50319