Your Northeast Health Partners authorization, handled.
At Blossom ABA, we verify your benefits, submit every form, and follow up with Northeast Health Partners until your child's therapy is approved. You don't touch a single piece of paperwork.
Two university towns, an agricultural corridor, and eastern plains most providers ignore.
Fort Collins and Greeley are college towns with solid healthcare infrastructure. The agricultural communities across Weld County and the eastern plains have far less. Families in Sterling, Brush, Limon, or La Junta routinely drive significant distances for services, or go without them entirely. Blossom ABA comes to your home regardless of where you are in the NHP footprint. Families in the eastern plains aren't second-class members of a region designed around its two largest cities.
We manage Northeast Health Partners so you don't have to.
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We verify first
Give us your Health First Colorado member ID and we'll confirm your NHP assignment and exactly what your child's coverage includes before you commit to anything.
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We submit the authorization
We know what Northeast Health Partners needs, how they want it formatted, and who to follow up with. You don't track any of it.
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We handle everything after
Reauthorizations, appeals, follow-up. If NHP denies something, we explain the real reason and appeal with documentation that addresses what they actually need.
Everything your child needs, authorized through EPSDT.
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Initial assessment
A comprehensive evaluation by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst who documents your child's current skills, identifies areas of need, and builds an individualized treatment plan. This is covered under Health First Colorado and is the required first step before therapy begins.
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In-Home ABA Therapy
One-on-one sessions with a trained Registered Behavior Technician in your home. Your child works on communication, behavior regulation, social skills, and daily living skills in the environment where those skills actually need to hold up.
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BCBA supervision
Your BCBA oversees the treatment plan throughout, reviewing session data, updating goals, and adjusting the approach as your child makes progress. This is a covered service under Health First Colorado.
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School-based and community ABA
Health First Colorado covers ABA in school settings and community environments. The setting is determined by what your child's treatment plan documents as most appropriate.
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Parent Training
Direct instruction in the strategies your child's therapy team uses. Built into every Blossom ABA treatment plan and covered under Health First Colorado.
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Region 2: Larimer, Weld, and the eastern plains.
- Baca
- Bent
- Cheyenne
- Crowley
- Elbert
- Kit Carson
- Kiowa
- Larimer
- Lincoln
- Logan
- Morgan
- Otero
- Phillips
- Prowers
- Sedgwick
- Washington
- Weld
- Yuma
One thing that surprises a lot of families: Larimer County, home to Fort Collins, sits in the Northeast Health Partners region rather than with the Denver metro RAEs. If you moved north from Denver and assumed your RAE stayed the same, it almost certainly didn't. NHP is your RAE, and RMHP handles behavioral health administrative services for NHP under a subcontracted arrangement. Blossom ABA knows exactly how that partnership works and routes everything correctly from the start.
Every community in Region 2, including the ones other providers don't reach.
How Northeast Health Partners Authorizes ABA Therapy.
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What We Submit
Your child's formal ASD diagnosis, the comprehensive BCBA assessment, and the individualized treatment plan. NHP reviews against medical necessity criteria and issues an authorization. You prepare nothing.
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Contact And Portal
Northeast Health Partners member services is available through nhprae2.org. Because RMHP handles behavioral health administrative functions for Region 2, some provider-facing authorization processes run through RMHP's Optum Provider Express portal. Blossom ABA navigates this correctly and handles all contact directly.
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Timeline
7 to 14 business days from a complete submission. We submit complete packages the first time and follow up proactively throughout.
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Reauthorization
We track your child's authorization end date and initiate renewal before it expires. No gap in services.
Questions Northeast Health Partners families ask us
How do I know if Northeast Health Partners is my RAE?
If your primary care provider is in any of the 18 counties listed above, NHP is almost certainly your RAE. We confirm on the first call.
I moved from Denver to Fort Collins. Is my RAE still the same?
No. Larimer County is in the Northeast Health Partners region, not the Colorado Access Denver metro region. We confirm your RAE on the first call.
Why does my authorization seem to involve RMHP if my RAE is NHP?
NHP has contracted with Rocky Mountain Health Plans to handle behavioral health administrative functions for Region 2. NHP is still your RAE and primary contact. Blossom ABA navigates this correctly so nothing gets routed to the wrong place.
How long does NHP authorization take?
Typically 7 to 14 business days from a complete submission.
What if NHP denies the authorization?
We appeal with additional clinical documentation. You also have the right to request a State Fair Hearing through HCPF.
Let's Get Your Child's Northeast Health Partners Therapy Authorized
Northeast Health Partners authorization doesn't have to slow your family down. Blossom ABA handles the process from first call to first session.