Clarification on Provider Use of Activity Reason Codes
Providers should not add or remove reason codes within Activity & Referral records. This field should only be edited by Coastline and Elder Affairs, and is strictly informational for providers.
Aging & Disability for Professionals - Serving Massachusetts Older Adults and People with Disabilities
User Support for AFC & GAFC Determinations in Massachusetts SIMS Announcements, User Guides, How-to, Training Materials, and more
User Support for AFC & GAFC Determinations in Massachusetts SIMS Announcements, User Guides, How-to, Training Materials, and more
Providers should not add or remove reason codes within Activity & Referral records. This field should only be edited by Coastline and Elder Affairs, and is strictly informational for providers.
Occasionally a provider will inadvertently create a duplicate record in SAMS. Providers should do all they can to avoid creating a duplicate, as this adds time to the submission/review process, and delays the start of your member's services. Please consult the article on the AGD Support Blog titled Avoiding Duplicates by Careful Locate/Create for helpful […]
It is good practice to display the Reason for the Activity & Referrals in your dashboard widgets. Do this by clicking [Format Widget], moving Reason to the items to display, and moving the Reason column by click-and-drag to a visible location. Steps to configure this view are shown below.
The AGD Support team is offering a webinar on the use of SAMS to create and submit Initial Determination requests for AFC & GAFC (Adult Foster Care & Group Adult Foster Care). Intermediate SAMS for AGD (AFC & GAFC Determinations) Date: Tuesday February 9th, 2016 Time: 1:00pm -2:30pm Update: The webinar was quite well […]
As you know, if you inadvertently create a duplicate consumer record as you assemble AFC/ GAFC initial determination materials, the screening will be delayed until the records can be merged by an administrator. There are more than 700,000 consumer records in the SAMS database. Many prospective AFC or GAFC consumers have already had an interaction […]
All AGD SAMS users have been updated to enable Assessment XML export from the Production environment.
All AGD SAMS users have been updated so that they can get XML Schema documents (XSD) to match a SAMS Assessment. While these screenshots show the Field Test environment, AGD users can retrieve these materials from Production or Field Test.
New functionality in the Harmony SAMS application enables an authorized user to import or export XML data to or from a SAMS assessment form. Each assessment has an associated XSD schema that is available from SAMS. This functionality may be deployed to AGD organizations that store MDS-HC data in their own system-of-record, so as to […]
This document provides orientation for new AFC/GAFC providers who will become users of the AGD Process: Download AGD New Provider Guidance 10-14-15 – v01
Get the kickoff meeting PowerPoint here. Download Kick Off Training Webinar – July 16, 2015 – AGD Group 2 (pdf) Click this link to view the recording of the kick off webinar: Download Instant Meeting 2015-07-16 (2)