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IL 2022-56 is posted on the HHS webpage for Home and Community-based Services (HCS), Texas Home Living (TxHmL), local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, and Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities (DBMD) Waiver.

Medicaid and CHIP Services is hosting monthly meetings for 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 Nov. 30 recording of the Individualized Skills and Socialization webinar with Long-term Care Regulation is available.

Nursing facility providers should attend this and all webinars with HHSC Long-term Care Regulation and DSHS.

HHSC has implemented a new credentialing system in the Texas Unified Information Portal (TULIP) for Nursing Facility Administrators (NFA). All NFAs active on Feb. 11, 2022, have been under a grace period as defined in PL 2022-20.  Given the ability for NFAs to submit renewal applications in TULIP, the system is considered fully functional, and the current grace period will end on Jan. 31, 2023.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has approved payment rates for the Individualized Skills and Socialization in the Deaf Blind with Multiple Disabilities waiver, Home and Community-based Services waiver, and Texas Home Living waiver programs, effective Jan. 1, 2023.

The Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) created the Regulatory Services Division in 2017 as regulatory functions consolidated from the Department of Family and Protective Services, the Department of Aging and Disability Services and the Department of State Health Services. As part of this consolidation effort, effective Jan. 30, 2022, HHSC will retire the Provider Investigation policy mailbox.

HHSC Complaint and Incident Intake (CII) has added an Infection Control option in the Incident Category field in the Texas Unified Licensure Information Portal for facility reported incidents.

HHSC has published a revision to this guidance in IL 2022-55 In-Home Day Habilitation Information for Program Providers for COVID-19 (PDF). This replaces IL 2022-54.

On Dec. 12, 2022, the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) will implement several enhancements to the TMHP Long-Term Care Online Portal. After the enhancements are implemented, existing information and training materials will be updated.

To ensure enough time to answer questions from participants and provide a walk-through of TULIP (the long-term care licensing application system) and describe the new licensing process, we are extending this webinar to two hours.

Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living waiver program providers that enrolled through the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership Provider Enrollment and Management System will be subject to a preenrollment site visit from TMHP.

FEI Systems will continue to host monthly provider demonstration webinars at 10 a.m. through December 2023.

Cures Act Home Health Care Services: EVV Services Updates and Service Bill Codes Table Now Available

A recording of the November 9 TMHP LTC Portal for HCS and TxHmL Providers and FMSAs Webinar is available for those who could not attend. The webinar recording and slides have been posted to the HCS and TxHmL Webinars and FAQs webpage.