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Kidney Health Care is a statewide program that helps Texans with end-stage renal disease pay for: Dialysis treatments Access surgery Drugs Travel to transplant or dialysis services (mileage reimbursement) Medicare premiums

Information for Texas providers of  Peer Re-entry Pilot Program provides community-based peer services.

Information for Texas providers of Peer Support Services on becoming certified for Peer Support as a Medicaid Benefit.

The benefits of Peer Support Services are listed.

A peer is a person with lived experience of recovery from mental illness or addiction. By combining this experience with skills learned in formal training, peer specialists deliver services in behavioral health settings to support long-term recovery.

Peer support is when someone with lived experience gives encouragement and assistance to help someone with mental illness or a substance use disorder achieve long-term recovery.

The Quality Incentive Payment Program (QIPP) is a state directed payment program (DPP) which serves as a performance-based initiative to help nursing facilities achieve transformation in the quality of their services through implementation of innovative program-wide improvement processes.

The Minimum Data Set (MDS) 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 for Texas Emergency Response Services providers.

HHSC has updated two lists of nursing facilities that have not met the initial conditions of participation for the Quality Incentive Payment Program state fiscal year (SFY) 2024 program year.

HHSC has identified Nursing Facilities that have not met the initial conditions of participation for the Quality Incentive Payment Program SFY 2024 program year.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has published an updated version of the SFY 2024 Quality Metrics and Associated Performance Requirements for the Quality Incentive Payment Program for Nursing Facilities to reflect recent changes made to Component 3 metrics.

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission posted proposed SFY 2025 QIPP quality metrics and associated performance requirements on Nov. 30, 2023.

The Health and Human Services Commission’s Quality Incentive Payment Program is a state-wide performance-based payment program designed to incentivize nursing facilities to improve the quality and innovation of their services.

The Executive Commissioner of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission adopts an amendment to 1 Texas Administrative Code §353.1302, concerning the Quality Incentive Payment Program for Nursing Facilities providing services under Medicaid managed care on or after Sept. 1, 2019.