NY Article 31 treatment plan deadlines: the actual dates
The specific initial, review, and reassessment deadlines under 14 NYCRR Part 599 - and what triggers the clock.
The three deadlines that matter
Under 14 NYCRR Part 599 (Article 31 outpatient), most sites focus on three deadlines:
- Initial treatment plan: within 30 days of admission.
- Treatment plan review: every 90 days thereafter.
- Annual diagnostic assessment: at admission and updated annually.
Miss any of them, and OMH surveyors will note it. Miss them systematically, and you are looking at a Statement of Deficiencies.
What triggers the clock
The admit date is the anchor. Different clinics interpret it slightly differently: some count from first billable visit, others from date of chart open. Pick one and be consistent - the auditor cares about the consistency, not the specific choice.
Where clinics slip
Three failure modes are common:
- Manual spreadsheet: someone owns a tab of due dates, then goes on leave. Nothing recalculates when a client transfers or the chart is reopened.
- Supervisor bottleneck: the clinician completes the plan on day 28, submits for supervisor review, and the supervisor doesn’t countersign until day 34.
- Cascade blindness: the initial plan being late doesn’t just miss one deadline - it slides every subsequent 90-day review.
How ClinicWarden handles it
Module A (Clinical Compliance) computes each of these dates from the admit date the moment a client is enrolled, assigns the task to the right clinician, schedules the supervisor review as a separate task, and cascades subsequent reviews when the initial plan lands. Every state change is a domain event on the append-only ledger.
You can preview the exact math right now with our free Compliance Calendar Generator.