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The Minimum Data Set is a standardized collection of demographic and clinical information that describes a person's overall condition. All licensed nursing facilities in Texas are required to submit MDS assessments for all residents admitted into their facility. The current version is MDS 3.0.

Information for Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS) program providers in Texas

Texas HHS maintains CLASS choice lists for applicants, individuals or legally authorized representatives to use when choosing a Case Management Agency and Direct Services Agency. The lists are maintained for each CLASS catchment area and are updated monthly or as needed. 

Advance care planning means planning ahead for how you want to be treated if you are very ill or near death. This page provides information about that process for both providers and consumers.

The term "negotiated rulemaking" specifies a particular process to be used to draft a proposed rule. This process provides for a group of 12-15 stakeholders who represent differing interests affected by the proposed rule to negotiate and potentially reach agreement on a proposed rule.

This page lists CLASS provider webinars presented by HHSC.

Electronic Visit Verification is a computer-based system that verifies the occurrence of authorized personal attendant service visits by electronically documenting the precise time a service delivery visit begins and ends. Texas requires EVV for certain Medicaid funded home and community-based services provided through HHSC and MCOs.

Information about the licensing and regulation of nursing facilities (NFs) in Texas.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing are offering eight free web-based modules to deliver best practices education to long-term care providers in Texas nursing homes.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has updated the Electronic Visit Verification Visit Maintenance Unlock Request templates, VMUR job aids, and VMUR policy on the EVV webpage.

A recording of the Dec. 11, 2024, nursing facility provider webinar with Long-term Care Regulation is now available.

The Dec. 3 Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS) and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD) Quarterly Webinar with HHSC Long Term Services and Supports is available.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following webinar trainings hosted in January.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued CMS Memo QSO-25-07-NH — Revised Long-Term Care Surveyor Guidance: Significant revisions to enhance quality and oversight of the LTC survey process.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the 2025 Proprietary System Operator (PSO) Operational Readiness Review (ORR) onboarding schedule and the new PSO Onboarding Standard Process Overview and Timeline (PDF) to the TMHP EVV webpage.