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Texas Health and Human Services Commission is aware that an unauthorized third party impersonating the agency sent an email requesting the verification/update of information related to Long-term Care licensure.

A recording of the Jan. 19 HCSSA provider webinar with HHSC Long-term Care Regulation is now available.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) will implement a claim matching bypass on Feb. 1, 2024 — for EVV claims with dates of service from Jan. 1 through March 31 — to be paid without a matching EVV visit.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following webinar trainings hosted in February and March. If you register and can’t attend, please cancel your registration as soon as possible.

The OASIS trainings are for registered nurses and physical, occupational, and speech therapists that collect OASIS Data.

The new Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Texas Administrative Code (TAC) has been published on the Secretary of State’s Texas Administrative Code webpage.

EVV Program providers and financial management services agencies must enter and maintain correct information in the EVV system for their service providers or Consumer Directed Services employees.

Application Programming Interface can be used to exchange data between third-party software systems to the new EVV vendor, HHAeXchange.

HHSC has revised the Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) rules in Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Title 1, Chapter 354, Subchapter O. The new TAC rules are effective Jan. 1, 2024.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, the managed care organization, Amerigroup, will begin operating under a new name — Wellpoint.

HHSC initiated a claims matching bypass from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31 for EVV claims to be paid without a matching EVV visit.

Long-Term Care Regulation staff and nursing home program providers are invited to attend the new in-person class, “The Survey and Enforcement Process for Nursing Homes,” starting in January.

Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership published a table that highlights the most frequently occurring issues Electronic Visit Verification users have experienced with the HHAeXchange system.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will host a webinar for HCSSA providers on Jan. 19 from 11 a.m.–noon.

All licensed long-term care providers must submit a renewal application in the Texas Unified Licensure Information Portal before their current license expires.