RSM 2, Attachment 800-5: BHA Priority Population Definition – Adults

Priority Population (Adult)

• Bipolar I Disorder, Current or Most Recent Episode Depressed
• Bipolar I Disorder, Current or Most Recent Episode Hypomanic
• Bipolar I Disorder, Current or Most Recent Episode Manic
• Bipolar I Disorder, Current or Most Recent Episode Unspecified
• Bipolar II Disorder
• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Delusional Disorder
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Other Specified Bipolar and Related Disorder
• Other Specified Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder
• Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type
• Schizoaffective Disorder, Depressive Type
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophreniform Disorder
• Schizotypal Personality Disorder
• Unspecified Bipolar and Related Disorder
• Unspecified Depressive Disorder
• Unspecified Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorder

Individual must have two or more of the following functional limitations:

• Social behavior that results in interventions by the behavioral health system.
  
• Inability, due to cognitive disorganization, to procure financial assistance to support living in the community.​
  
• Severe inability to establish or maintain a personal support system.
  
• Need for assistance with basic living skills.
  

Individual must also have all of the following:

• Work history has been non-existent, interrupted, or intermittent due to a significant psychiatric impairment.
• Desire to attain competitive employment in the community.
• Require supported employment services to choose, to obtain, to maintain, or to advance within competitive employment.