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Idaho · CHIS · Behavioral intervention
Idaho added ABA to CHIS in December 2025
Idaho runs behavioral intervention through its Children's Habilitation Intervention Services program, CHIS, under IDAPA 16.03.09.574, and since December 2025 that program explicitly covers ABA. The procedural requirements ask each visit note to carry the date, time, and duration, a real summary of the session rather than an attendance line, data documentation corresponding to the implementation plans, the location, and a signed, dated, credentialed entry. The matching rule set lives in the rules library in the Penguin Health app.
Children's Habilitation Intervention Services.
Behavioral intervention under CHIS now explicitly includes ABA.
The CHIS procedural requirements.
Data documentation corresponding to the implementation plans.
The rule
What IDAPA 16.03.09.574 requires
CHIS predates Idaho's ABA coverage, so its documentation standard was written for habilitative intervention generally, and it translates cleanly: time the visit, summarize the work, show the data against the plan, place the service, and sign it with a credential.
- The date, time, and duration of each visit, matching the billed line.
- A summary of the session or service provided: what happened, not only that it happened.
- Data documentation corresponding to the implementation plans for skill building or behavioral intervention.
- The location of service delivery, consistent with the billed place of service.
- The signature of the individual who provided the service, the date signed, and their credential.
- Implementation plans for skill building and behavioral intervention sit in the record.
The checklist
What an Idaho CHIS note has to show
Each item below names its citation and the Penguin rule that checks it. Idaho sets no fixed note-completion deadline in the CHIS requirements, so none is claimed.
| The note shows | What that means in practice | Source | Rule |
|---|---|---|---|
| Date, time, and duration matching the billing | The visit, timed and agreeing with the claim. | IDAPA 16.03.09.574 | ID-1 |
| A summary of the session or service provided | What happened, not an attendance line. | IDAPA 16.03.09.574 | ID-2 |
| Data corresponding to the implementation plans | The session's data ties to the plan it implements. | IDAPA 16.03.09.574 | ID-3 |
| The location of service delivery | Where, consistent with the billed place of service. | IDAPA 16.03.09.574 | ID-4 |
| Signature, date signed, and credential | The renderer, signed and credentialed, with the signing date. | IDAPA 16.03.09.574 | ID-5 |
In the rules library
Five Idaho rules, ready to turn on
Open the rules library in the Penguin Health app, choose Idaho Medicaid CHIS Behavioral Intervention, and click Add to organization. Rules your organization already has are left alone, so adding the set twice only fills gaps. After adding, edit any rule or add your own alongside them.
Each rule runs only on notes billed to Idaho Medicaid payers. Penguin checks the CentralReach payer name, so a Idaho rule never fires on a commercial note in the same organization, and an organization whose payer names differ edits that match after adding the set.
Penguin reads signed session notes from CentralReach, read-only, after signature and before the claim, and runs the set on every note. Deterministic rules compare record fields. AI rules are read by the AI, which returns a pass or fail with a one-sentence reason.
Five rules for Idaho CHIS behavioral intervention (ABA since December 2025) under IDAPA 16.03.09.574: per-visit times, session summary, implementation-plan data, location, and signed credentials.
- reviewed
- Oct 26, 2026
- runs on
- Notes billed to Idaho Medicaid payers
- sources
- IDAPA 16.03.09.574, CHIS procedural requirements
- watching
- The IDAPA rule text, tracked through Idaho's rule reorganization
Every failure ships with QA guidance for that program code: an educational email, numbered action steps, and a QA email pre-filled with the date of service and a link to the note. Each reviewer action is written to a write-once audit log with seven-year retention. Billing Medicaid in more than one state? The rules library covers twenty-nine, including Washington and Wyoming.
Maintained by Penguin
We watch the rule so the set never goes stale
Idaho is reorganizing its administrative rules, and the CHIS citation may move in the process. The Idaho set is tied to the rule text, and the watcher follows the citation wherever it lands.
The IDAPA rule text, through the state's rule reorganization. Penguin fetches the sources on a schedule and archives every revision.
We rewrite the affected rule, cite the document that changed it, and date the review. The set shows its sources and review date in the library.
An updated rule runs in the next scheduled validation and on demand against notes you have already reviewed, so a changed requirement shows you exactly which past notes it touches.
- ABA added to CHIS
Behavioral intervention under CHIS explicitly includes applied behavior analysis.
LibraryID-1 through ID-5 are built against the CHIS procedural requirements.
- Idaho set reviewed
Checked against IDAPA 16.03.09.574. Current; the citation is tracked through the state's rule reorganization.
- WatchingThe rule reorganization
If the citation moves, the set is updated with the new citation and every organization using it gets the change.
State alerts
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Next step
Run a month of Idaho notes through Penguin
Bring one month of session notes. We add the Idaho set from the rules library, run it, show every finding beside the source it maps to, and hand your QA lead the fix for each one. Or get a demo account and click through Penguin on your own time first.