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- Provider NewsAugust 5, 2022HHSC is reminding long-term care providers to be alert for people who have rashes and other symptoms consistent with monkeypox. Providers should follow CDC guidance on monkeypox.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsAugust 5, 2022This webinar provides foundational guidance on OASIS and the OASIS conventions for data collection.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsAugust 5, 2022LTC providers should review their emergency preparedness and response plans to ensure people know what to do in an emergency related to drought, especially as Texas is currently experiencing statewide drought conditions.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsAugust 4, 2022Texas is currently experiencing statewide drought conditions. Numerous water systems are stressed and may continue to experience issues as the drought progresses, and there are concerns about the impacts on long-term care facilities.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsAugust 2, 2022Since May 2, Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living program providers, local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, and financial management services agencies billing on behalf of Consumer Directed Services have been submitting claims and forms to Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 27, 2022Beginning Aug. 1, two Home and Community-based Services and Texas Home Living mailboxes will no longer be available.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 26, 2022HHSC is hosting an optional Electronic Visit Verification Compliance webinar on Aug. 25 for Consumer Directed Services employers required to use EVV.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 25, 2022Long-term Care Regulation staff and program providers are invited to attend the following trainings hosted in August.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 21, 2022Emergency Rules for Home and Community Support Services Agencies Response to COVID-19 in 26 Texas Administrative Code, Chapter 558.960 expire on July 21 and will not be renewed.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, COVID-19
- Provider NewsJuly 20, 2022The TexMedConnect User Guide has instructions for adjusting a previously submitted claim with dates of service on May 1 or later.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 19, 2022Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership updated the Electronic Visit Verification Portal and related training materials on July 14.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 19, 2022A recording of the July 15 Home and Community Support Services Agencies Provider COVID-19 Webinar with Long-term Care Regulation is now available.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, COVID-19
- Provider NewsJuly 15, 2022Emergency rules for Inpatient Hospice COVID-19 Response – Expansion of Reopening Visitation in 26 Texas Administrative Code Section 558.950 expired on June 16.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 15, 2022Effective immediately, Home and Community-based Services Program providers are responsible for entering all non-HCS Program and non-Community First Choice services into the HHSC data system.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers
- Provider NewsJuly 14, 2022IL 2022-37 provides a status update on the implementation of the Critical Incident Management Reporting System, which impacts HCS, TxHmL providers and LIDDAs. HHSC will host six CIMS Provider Administration Demonstration webinars in July.
Topics: Long-term Care Providers, Reporting