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Licensing and regulatory information for residential child care operations in Texas.

Information for Texas Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP) Providers

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.

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.

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.

FEI Systems recently updated the content covered in the monthly CIMS Provider Demonstrations.

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.

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.

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.

IL 2023-06 is posted on the HHS webpage for Home and Community-based Services (HCS), Texas Home Living (TxHmL), local intellectual and developmental disability authorities, and financial management services agency program providers.

IL 2023-07 is posted to the HHS DBMD, LIDDA, HCS and TxHmL

The purpose of this letter is to provide guidance to local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs) and Home and Community-based Services (HCS) Program providers regarding implementation of the federal Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) settings regulations.

HHSC will submit a final Statewide Transition Plan (STP) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The STP is posted for public comment.