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CDS Program Handbooks and Forms
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Policy
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Information about how the CDS program works in Texas.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Disability
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Information about how to become a CDS provider in Texas.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
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A list of CDS training presentations.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
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Training resources for CDS providers.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
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Consumer Directed Services (CDS) Webinar recordings and presentation documents.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Financial
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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.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
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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.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Policy, Reporting
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Resources for CDS Support Advisor Training and Application.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJune 9, 2025
HHSC will host the Financial Management Services Agencies (FMSA) quarterly webinar on June 27.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJanuary 21, 2025
HHAeXchange is hosting an EVV system training webinar on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from 11 a.m. to noon Central time for Consumer Directed Services (CDS) employers who use HHAeXchange as their EVV system.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJanuary 13, 2025
HHSC published a notice on Dec. 4, 2024, about the EVV Proprietary System Operator Onboarding Process Overview and Timeline to the TMHP EVV Proprietary Systems webpage
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJanuary 7, 2025
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.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsDecember 4, 2024
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.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsNovember 18, 2024
Medicaid and CHIP Services will be hosting monthly sessions for Program Providers and Financial Management Services Agencies, who use the Long-term Care online portal for the Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living waiver programs.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers