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Step-Down Rationale Builder
Assembles a draft step-down or continued-stay narrative from your selections.
Drafting aid, not a placement decision. Complete the formal level-of-care determination in your program's required system.
Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent.
Step 1 of 4Level of care
1. Current and proposed level of care
Target: Partial hospitalization
Frame: next-lower step-down from residential.
Draft rationale — edit before using
Select inputs to assemble a draft.
This tool assembles documentation language from your selections; it does not determine the appropriate level of care and is not legal advice. Your program may use a specific medical-necessity framework for the formal level-of-care determination — complete that determination in your program's required system and follow your clinical judgment and licensing-board guidance. Runs entirely in your browser; nothing is saved or sent. Use initials only — no PHI.