Search Providers

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.

This course covers the Home Health regulatory part of OASIS. It is for administrators and alternate administrators employed at Medicare certified home health agencies and licensed home health agencies seeking Medicare certification.

Long-term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following trainings hosted in April.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that the blanket waiver, allowing temporary nurse aides to work for longer than four months without completing their Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP) or Competency Evaluation Program (CEP), will end May 11, 2023.

Home and Community Support Services Agencies should attend this and all webinars with HHSC Long-term Care Regulation.

HHSC has published IL 2023-11 to the CLASS, DMBD, HCS and TxHmL websites, stating that the federal COVID-19 public health emergency will end May 11, 2023.

The Texas Culture Change Coalition will host their in-person Spring 2023 conference titled, Texans Coming Together for Residents, for Staff, for All.

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

HHSC has become aware of a nation-wide scheme involving the sale of false and fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts from accredited Florida-based nursing schools, which were then used by individuals to obtain nursing licensure in various states.

Long-term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following trainings hosted in March.

Long-term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following trainings hosted in March.

To assist program providers with documenting the completion of required training, HHSC has created Form 6520, Record of Completion for the DBMD Program Service Provider Training.

On Dec. 1, 2022, HHSC began issuing temporary licenses to Individualized Skills and Socialization Providers.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will be providing a one-day, in-person training event for current and potential Individualized Skills and Socialization Providers on Monday, April 3. Training will take place in the Public Hearing Room at the John H. Winters Building in Austin, Texas.