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

IDD Program Eligibility & Support (IDD PES) has both advisors and reviewers. Reviewers can help with level of care determinations.

Texas local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) provider information.

Information about permanency planning for children.

Long-term Care Regulation staff and program. providers are invited to attend the following in-person classes in June and July.

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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued revised Quality Safety & Oversight Memo (QSO) 20-39-NH Nursing Home Visitation – COVID-19 and allows QSO-20-38-NH on COVID-19 Long-term Care (LTC) Facility Testing to expire.

HHSC will be providing ongoing opportunities for CLASS and DBMD providers and FMSAs to hear about recent program updates.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued memo QSO-23-13-ALL which outlines the expiration of emergency waivers issued during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) related to the minimum health and safety requirements for nursing facility (NF) providers.

Texas HHSC, along with The University of Texas Steve Hicks School of Social Work, will host the 2023 Quality in Long-Term Care Conference in person at the Renaissance Hotel in Austin on Aug. 22–23.

The federal waiver allowing temporary nurse aides to work longer than four months without certification ends May 11.

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

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

CMS rescinded memorandum QSO-20-31-ALL, the Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies, and replaced it with memorandum QSO-23-10-NH, revised guidance for Strengthened Enhanced Enforcement for Infection Control Deficiencies.

As part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) migration of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) submission and reporting functionality to their Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES), CMS will turn off the current Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) system’s ability to accept any MDS transmissions on April 13, 2023, at 8 p.m. ET.