How does the accredited approver unit require approved providers implement the new criteria?
A. In terms of your approval of applications: The applications should be reviewed using the information that the applicant was given regarding approval. So, if an applicant received the application materials in July but didn’t submit their application until September, they would still be reviewed using the information they received in July. So it would not be unusual to see some applications – especially those for approved provider status – being reviewed up until October 2009 using criteria previous to 2009. We know that sometimes information may be downloaded from your web site at an undisclosed time. Our suggestion is that you assume the information was downloaded at an average amount of time ordinarily needed to develop an application for approval (~8 weeks for activity applications, ~3 months for approver applications). Please make every effort to have your applicants using the 2009 criteria by the end of October 2009. This is 6 months following release of the application manual.
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