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The LOCUS Family of Tools are tools of choice for level of care determinations and service intensity assessment and planning for people and families receiving services for behavioral health issues. They serve providers, payers, and public population health entities such as states, counties, and tribes.
For People and Families receiving service:
The LOCUS tools offer an opportunity for a person-centered, collaborative, transparent process for evaluating both strengths and challenges that allow for partnership with providers in identifying the best mix and intensity of services to meet individual needs, whether for acute crisis care, or ongoing treatment and intervention to make progress toward recovery. The tools create a common language that support collaborative dialogue with providers and payers.
For Providers:
The LOCUS tools provide a structured best practice framework for service intensity assessment and planning that is practical to use, easy to understand, and reflective of the continuing service needs for people with complex BH challenges. The tools create a common language that support collaborative dialogue not only with people receiving services but also with payers and population health entities such as state, county, and tribal BH authorities.
For Payers:
The LOCUS tools provide an organized approach to both acute and continuing service intensity assessment and planning that meets regulatory requirements. They promote successful progress for members of all ages with BH challenges as well as helping to inform network composition and identification of potential service gaps in the continuum of care. The tools create a common language that support collaborative dialogue not only with people receiving services, but also with providers and population health entities such as state, county, and tribal BH authorities.
For Public Entities:
The LOCUS tools provide an organized framework for monitoring service intensity assessment and planning determinations by both providers and payers, both for acute care and continuing care, as well as offering a data-driven methodology for measuring service intensity needs, resources, and gaps across the continuum of care. The tools create a common language that support collaborative dialogue not only with people receiving services, but also with providers and payer intermediaries such as managed care organizations.
