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The Minimum Data Set 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 Medically Dependent Children Program (MDCP) Providers

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the 2025 Proprietary System Operator (PSO) Operational Readiness Review (ORR) onboarding schedule and the new PSO Onboarding Standard Process Overview and Timeline (PDF) to the TMHP EVV webpage.

To enhance program integrity, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is reducing the use of alternative devices as an approved method to clock in and clock out of for Electronic Visit Verification required services.

Recordings of the Aug. 27 and Sept. 12 Texas MDS webinars are now available.

HHSC will host a Minimum Data Set (MDS) webinar and provide an overview of clinical information.

Nursing facility Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) coordinators new to the Minimum Data Set (MDS), or anyone wanting to know a high-level overview about the RAI process and MDS, can register for the Texas MDS Basics webinar.

On Friday, July 19, due to the CrowdStrike Global IT issue, you may have experienced issues using your Electronic Visit Verification system to clock in and clock out when providing services requiring EVV.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has published the Proprietary System Operator (PSO) 2024 Onboarding schedule to the EVV Proprietary Systems webpage.

HHSC is continuing to work with Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership to develop a solution to allow visit maintenance for EVV Proprietary System Operators who lost access to the EVV system where the visit was entered.

HHAeXchange is hosting an Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Town Hall Webinar on Thursday, May 30, from 1–3 p.m. Central time for program providers and financial management services agencies who use HHAeXchange as their EVV system.

Texas Health and Human Services Commission is accepting comments from stakeholders on the following draft rules.