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The following documents must be submitted to the Health and Human Services Commission to support the Inventory for Client and Agency Planning ratings and increased services and supports for a person in the Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions Program or the Home and Community-based Services Program whose medical conditions require nursing interventions of 181 or more minutes per week. The level of need may be increased to the next higher level of need if supported by the documents.

Review past HCS and TxHmL webinars and frequently asked questions.

Information about permanency planning for children.

Texas local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) provider information.

FEI Systems recently updated the content covered in the monthly CIMS Provider Demonstrations.

Local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) and Home and Community-based Services (HCS) program providers have recently set forth new requirements in Title 26, Texas Administrative Code (26 TAC), Chapter 263, scheduled to be effective, March 1, 2023.

This information letter provides guidance on the process a program provider must follow to request an enhanced staffing rate for the provision of off-site individualized skills and socialization.

HCBS Settings and Individualized Skills and Socialization Provider Webinar Slated for Feb. 27. HCS and TxHmL program providers and service coordinators, and other interested people, can register for this webinar.

IL 2023-06 is posted on the HHS webpage for Home and Community-based Services (HCS), Texas Home Living (TxHmL), local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, and financial management services agency program providers.

IL 2023-07 is posted to the HHS DBMD, LIDDA, HCS and TxHmL

The purpose of this letter is to provide guidance to local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) and Home and Community-based Services (HCS) Program providers regarding implementation of the federal Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) settings regulations.

HHSC is offering the January 2023 online quarterly webinar for Financial Management Services Agencies. This webinar is a mandatory training intended only for FMSAs currently contracted with HHSC and managed care organizations.

Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership updated the Electronic Visit Verification Portal and related training materials on Jan. 13.

IL 2023-03 is posted to the HHS site for HCS, TxHmL, LIDDA, FMSA and EVV.

In response to questions and concerns related to the processing of Individual Plan of Care (IPC) forms, HHSC is clarifying required actions by submitters and how they parallel to processes in the Intellectual Disability (ID) Client Assignment and Registration System (CARE).