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

Information about Texas Area Agencies on Aging Texas Benefits Counseling Program

Communications from HHS to Texas Area Agencies on Aging

Licensing and regulation information for Home and Community-based Services (HCS) program providers in Texas.

A security enhancement was implemented by Texas.gov on February 12, 2023, incorporating Card Verification Value (CVV) Security Code and ZIP/Postal Code verification for all credit card transactions.

Child Care Regulation has updated the Criminal History Requirements Charts, published in the Texas Register and effective March 31, 2023.

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

To improve technical assistance for commonly cited Minimum Standards, Child Care Regulation (CCR) is developing a series of forms that may be used to improve compliance.

HHSC has adopted rules in Chapter 745, Licensing, that will be effective March 27, 2023.

HHSC has published in the Texas Register proposed new rules in Title 26, Chapter 745.

HHSC has published in the Texas Register proposed rule changes in Chapter 748, Minimum Standards for General Residential Operations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has indicated that the blanket waiver, allowing temporary nurse aides to work for longer than four months without completing their Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP) or Competency Evaluation Program (CEP), will end May 11, 2023.

HHSC is submitting 29 Acres, an intentional community setting, to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for heightened scrutiny review.

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, are no longer mandatory to document a service claim of on-site, off-site, or in-home individualized skills and socialization.

HHSC has published IL 2023-11 to the CLASS, DMBD, HCS and TxHmL websites, stating that the federal COVID-19 public health emergency will end May 11, 2023.