What is an ICF/IID?
The Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions program provides residential and habilitation services to people with intellectual disabilities or a related condition.
Provider Communications
Click here for news, information letters (ILs) and provider letters (PLs).
COVID-19
Resources
- Infection Prevention and Control Measures for Common Infections in LTC Facilities (PDF)
- National Healthcare Safety Network Long Term Care Facility COVID-19 Module Enrollment (PDF)
- Infection Control Basics & PPE Training for Essential Caregivers (PDF)
- Long-term Care COVID-19 Vaccination Options (PDF)
- COVID-19 Vaccination-Pharmacy Partnership for Long-Term Care (PDF)
- Proper N95 Respirator Use for Respiratory Protection Preparedness
- Helping Residents with Dementia Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 in LTC Communities (PDF)
- Helping Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Related Conditions Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 (PDF)
- Omnicare POC Testing FAQs for Healthcare Professionals (PDF)
ICF Medicaid Provider Training
- ICF/IID Provider Bed Hold Payments Webinar, Feb. 5, 2021
- ICF/IID Provider Payments for 90 days of Leave Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF)
- Feb 5, 2021 ICF/IID Bed Hold Webinar, Questions and Answers (PDF)
- Emergency rule authorizing payment for COVID-19 therapeutic leave (PDF) (see page 2) effective Jan. 29, 2021.
- IL 2021-37 Payments for Leave Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF)
Contact Program Staff
Forms Processing and Service Authorizations: Provider Claims Services, 512-438-2200, Option 1
Contract Administration and Provider Monitoring: 512-438-3390, CAPM_NF_ICF_Contracting@hhsc.state.tx.us
Quality Assurance Fee (QAF): 512-424-6552
Contracting Policy, Living Options, Trust Funds, Therapeutic Leaves or QAF: icfiid.questions@hhsc.state.tx.us
Enforcement: 512-438-2626
Licensing and Certification: 512-438-2630
Regulatory Services Policy: 512-438-3161, PolicyRulesTraining@hhsc.state.tx.us
Other Contact Information: Regulatory Services regional contacts
Directory and Regulation Tags
- Directory of all ICF/IIDs (Excel)
- Directory of all ICF/IIDs (PDF)
- ICF/IID Closures (Excel)
- ICF/IID Closures (PDF)
- ICF/IID Licensure Tags (PDF)
- ICF/IID State Standards of Participation Tags (PDF)
Forms and Handbooks
Handbooks
- Community ICF/IID Living Options Instrument (PDF)
- Denial or Refusal of License Handbook
- Licensed Intermediate Care Facility for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions (ICF/IID) Provider Manual
- Licensing Standards for Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions (ICFs/IID) Handbook
Forms
- Form 1570, Request for MN/LOC Evaluation or Verification of RUG Category
- Form 3613-A Provider Investigation Report
- Form 3708: Amelioration Request
- Form 8603: Level of Need (LON) Review/Increase Cover Sheet
- Form 8578:Intellectual Disability/Related Condition Assessment
- Form 8662: Related Conditions Eligibility Screening Instrument
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Forms
Funding
There is no additional funding for ICF/IIDs and there has not been for several years. If funding should become available, notice will be posted in the Texas Register.
Regulatory Comment Card Survey
Statutes and Rules
State
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 4, Rights of Protection of Individuals Receiving Intellectual Disability Services
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Pat 1, Chapter 5, Provider Clinical Responsibilities — Intellectual Disability Services
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 6, ICF/IID Programs — Contracting
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 8, Client Care — Intellectual Disability Services
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 9, Intellectual Disability Services - Medicaid State Operating Agency Responsibilities
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 261, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions (ICF/IID) Program—Contracting
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 551, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 560: Criminal Convictions Barring Facility Licensure
- Texas Health and Safety Code, Title 4, Chapter 252, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability
- Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Chapter 331, LIDDA Service Coordination
Federal
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) State Operations Manual
- Appendix J: Guidance to Surveyors: Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (PDF)
- Exhibit 355: Probes and Procedures for Appendix J, Part II-Interpretive Guidelines-Responsibilities of ICFs/IID (PDF)
- Appendix Q: Guidelines for Determining Immediate Jeopardy (PDF)
- Appendix I: Survey Procedures and Interpretive Guidelines for Life Safety Code Surveys (PDF)
- Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42, Chapter IV, Part 483 - Requirements for States and Long Term Facilities
- Code of Federal Regulations, Title 42, Chapter IV, Part 440, Section 150: Intermediate Care Facility Services
Other Rules and Statutes
IDD and PI Quarterly Webinars
- October 27, 2022 IDD and PI Quarterly Webinar (PDF)
- January 26, 2023 IDD and PI Quarterly Webinar (PDF)
- April 23, 2023 IDD and PI Quarterly Webinar (PDF)