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HHSC has adopted rules in the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) Program, effective March 1, 2023.

Medicaid and CHIP Services (MCS) is hosting monthly meetings for Providers and Financial Management Services Agencies (FMSAs) who use the Long-Term Care (LTC) Online Portal for the Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and Texas Home Living (TxHmL) waiver programs.

HHSC has become aware of a nation-wide scheme involving the sale of false and fraudulent nursing degree diplomas and transcripts from accredited Florida-based nursing schools, which were then used by individuals to obtain nursing licensure in various states.

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will be providing a one-day training event for Individualized Skills and Socialization Providers. This event will cover the licensing process, program rules, a review of the survey process and more.

HHSC adopted rules in: Chapter 744, Minimum Standards for School-Age and Before or After-School Programs, Chapter 746, Minimum Standards for Child-Care Centers, and Chapter 747, Minimum Standards for Child-Care Homes.

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

Local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) and Home and Community-based Services (HCS) program providers have recently set forth new requirements in Title 26, Texas Administrative Code (26 TAC), Chapter 263, scheduled to be effective, March 1, 2023.

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

HHSC Long-term Care Regulation will be providing recurring one-hour webinars for Individualized Skills and Socialization providers.

HHSC reminds HCS program providers that HHSC, with the assistance of Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP), is conducting on-site assessments of 3-person residences, 4-person residences, and Host Home/Companion Care (HH/CC) settings to ensure compliance with the federal HCBS Settings Rule.

On Dec. 1, 2022, HHSC began issuing temporary licenses to Individualized Skills and Socialization Providers.

This information letter provides guidance on the process a program provider must follow to request an enhanced staffing rate for the provision of off-site individualized skills and socialization.

HHSC has published Form 8615, On-site and Off-site Individualized Skills and Socialization Service Delivery Log and Form 8616, In-Home Individualized Skills and Socialization Service Delivery Log.

Child Care Regulation (CCR) invites you to review and provide comments on the potential rule changes in Chapter 749, Minimum Standards for Child-Placing Agencies from Feb. 15 through March 1.

HCBS Settings and Individualized Skills and Socialization Provider Webinar Slated for Feb. 27. HCS and TxHmL program providers and service coordinators, and other interested people, can register for this webinar.