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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.

Recordings of the Aug. 27 and Sept. 12 Texas MDS webinars are now available.

HHSC will host a Minimum Data Set (MDS) webinar and provide an overview of clinical information.

Nursing facility Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) coordinators new to the Minimum Data Set (MDS), or anyone wanting to know a high-level overview about the RAI process and MDS, can register for the Texas MDS Basics webinar.

Medicaid and CHIP Services (MCS) will be hosting monthly sessions for Program Providers and Financial Management Services Agencies (FMSAs), who use the Long-term Care (LTC) online portal for the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) waiver programs.

On Friday, July 19, due to the CrowdStrike Global IT issue, you may have experienced issues using your Electronic Visit Verification system to clock in and clock out when providing services requiring EVV.

Medicaid and CHIP Services (MCS) will be hosting monthly sessions for Program Providers and Financial Management Services Agencies (FMSAs), who use the Long-term Care (LTC) online portal for the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) waiver programs.

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.

In March 2020, HHSC started a temporary policy change for respite and Community First Choice (CFC) Personal Assistance Services (PAS)/Habilitation (HAB) provided in the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) waiver programs. This temporary policy change is effective March 27, 2020, through March 31, 2025. HHSC will provide guidance if anything changes.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the Proprietary System Operator (PSO) 2024 Onboarding schedule to the EVV Proprietary Systems webpage.

HHSC is continuing to work with Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership to develop a solution to allow visit maintenance for EVV Proprietary System Operators who lost access to the EVV system where the visit was entered.

HHAeXchange is hosting an Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Town Hall Webinar on Thursday, May 30, from 1–3 p.m. Central time for program providers and financial management services agencies who use HHAeXchange as their EVV system.

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.

The questions and answers document and the webinar recording from the April 2 FMSA Quarterly Webinar have been posted.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission is accepting comments from stakeholders on the following draft rules.