REBA Application Walkthrough
for Service Providers
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Welcome to REBA!
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Introductions:
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Chris Peary, Project Manager for VR
Muhammad Din, Project Manager for AAJ
Contract Managers
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The Need for Electronic Invoicing
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Time delay for mailing and accepting Referral forms
No easy way to enforce contract timelines
Service Provider cost for mailing forms
Time delay in receiving Service Provider forms
Data entry costs for Service Providers
Manual data entry prone to errors, causing delays
Time delay due to returning erroneous forms
VR Procedures vary from area to area
The Benefits of REBA
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Reduced data entry time (VR customers’ information is
pre-populated in forms)
Mailing costs reduced
Time delay reduced by an estimated 3 months
Paper printing, filing, retrieving costs reduced
Invoice approval time reduced allowing for faster
payments and more customers served.
REBA Project Timeline
Jan 2011 to
Jun 2011Application
Development
Sep 2010 Survey
July 2011 –
User
Acceptance
Testing
We are Here
Oct 2010 to
Feb 2011 –
Analysis &
Design
Sep 2011 –
Training
3 Oct, 2011Go Live
Basic Terms / Definitions
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REBA – Rehabilitation Electronic Billing Application
An electronic invoicing system that will enable the
contracted service providers to submit invoices and
related documents electronically.
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RIMS - Rehabilitation Information Management System
An internal application being used by VR counselors
and Contract managers to perform day-to-day
activities. E.g. Create a new referral, approve an
NOA, approve an invoice
Provider User Roles
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Supervisor
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Manage Users, Accept / Reject a referral, Assign a referral to
an employment specialist, submit MPRs, NOAs and Invoices
Employment Specialist
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Can “save” MPR & NOA detail for an “assigned” referral.
Doesn’t have access to
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Manage users
Submit MPR or NOA
View Invoice
REBA Application Walkthrough
Next Steps
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Oct 03, 2011 – REBA application goes live and will be
available to all the users.
VR team will create REBA application user account
for supervisor.
Once you receive the credentials, create user
accounts for other supervisors (in your organization)
and employment specialists
All the new referrals will be sent via REBA application.
Keep watching the emails for notifications.
Important: REBA will handle OJT, ES and SE referral types only.
Other referral types will be handled via paper.
Support
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Contact your Contract Manager
Email to reba@vr.fldoe.org
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Note:
Training Manual and Video will also be available at
www.RehabWorks.org.
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