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Information on how to become a licensed Nursing Facility provider in Texas.

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.

HHSC is mandated to create and provide nursing facilities with one of the posters required by Texas Administrative Code, Title 26, Part 1, Chapter 554, §554.1921(e), the notice of how to file a complaint, giving the toll-free telephone number. This page provides information on how to obtain these posters.

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 about the licensing and regulation of Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with an Intellectual Disability or Related Conditions (ICF/IIDs) in Texas.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following hurricane season webinar trainings hosted in May, and June, .

The April 30 recording of the Intellectual and Developmental Disability Programs and Provider Investigations Quarterly Webinar with Long-term Care Regulation is available.

Joint Training will be hosting two in-person training courses in Amarillo for Long-term Care Providers.

HHSC reviews Medicaid bed allocation and deallocates Medicaid beds from nursing facilities that are not utilizing them at the level defined in 26 TAC §554.2322(j)(5).

Joint Training will be hosting an in-person emergency preparedness training for long-term care providers on April 17.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will host a webinar for HCS, TxHmL, ISS, PI and ICF/IID providers regarding the latest information from LTCR. 

Long-term Care program providers and regulatory staff are invited to attend the following in-person classes hosted in April and May, .

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation is hosting a nursing facility provider webinar on March 12 to provide the latest updates from LTCR.

LTCR has updated the ICF federal, licensure and state standards of participation tag crosswalks to the most current version.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued QSO-25-12-NH (PDF).