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Nursing facility providers should attend this and all webinars with HHSC Long-term Care Regulation and DSHS.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will be providing recurring one-hour webinars for Individualized Skills and Socialization providers.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is accepting informal comments from stakeholders on the following proposed rule — Title 26 Chapter 553, Licensing Standards for Assisted Living Facilities.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will be providing a one-day, in-person training event for current and potential Individualized Skills and Socialization Providers on Monday, April 3. Training will take place in the Public Hearing Room at the John H. Winters Building in Austin, Texas.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation has retired the COVID-19 Response Plan for Nursing Facilities (NFs) and the NF Frequently Asked Questions document, effective Feb. 6, 2023.

HHSC Publishes FAQs for ALF Providers

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation has published FAQs for DAHS Providers

HHS reminds long-term care facilities and agencies to review and update emergency plans for freezing temperatures and snow.

HHSC has updated Texas Medicaid Hospice Forms 3071 and 3074 to align with the Texas Medicaid Hospice Policy Program rules in TAC, Title 26, Chapter 266, effective July 2022.

QSO-23-08-HOSPICE informs Hospice providers of revisions to the State Operations Manual

A recording of the Jan. 26 DAHS Provider Webinar with HHSC Long-term Care Regulation is now available.

The Texas Unified Licensure Information Portal(TULIP) issue that prevented nursing facilities that already completed a Change of Ownership (CHOW) from submitting CHOW application has been fixed.

The deadline for nursing facilities to submit a Change of Ownership about the Fiscal Year 2023 Quality Incentive Payment Program is Feb. 14, 2022. 

HHSC will conduct a public hearing on December 20, 2021 at 1 p.m. to receive public comments on the proposed quality metrics and associated performance requirements for the Quality Incentive Payment Program (QIPP) for nursing facilities for state fiscal year 2023.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for Quality Improvement Payment Program has given approval to HHSC for the program period covering Sept. 1, 2021 through Aug. 31, 2022.