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Texas Health Steps program resources for Registered Nurses.

Texas Health Steps forms are available for providers to use as a documentation tool for all required checkup components. These forms are recommended for use, but not required.

Resources for Texas Health Step program's Medical Providers

Information about the Texas Health Steps online ordering system. Browse the catalog to order from a variety of THSteps publications.

TX Health Steps program resources for dental providers.

Texas Health Steps focuses on the medical, dental, and case management services for ages birth through 20. THSteps is committed to recruiting and retaining qualified providers to assure that comprehensive preventive health, dental, and case management services are available.

Information for Texas providers of  Peer Re-entry Pilot Program provides community-based peer services.

Information for Texas providers of Peer Support Services on becoming certified for Peer Support as a Medicaid Benefit.

The benefits of Peer Support Services are listed.

A peer is a person with lived experience of recovery from mental illness or addiction. By combining this experience with skills learned in formal training, peer specialists deliver services in behavioral health settings to support long-term recovery.

Peer support is when someone with lived experience gives encouragement and assistance to help someone with mental illness or a substance use disorder achieve long-term recovery.

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.

The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership has identified an issue affecting Resource Utilization Group score calculations for long-term care nursing facilities.

Texas nursing facilities (NFs) must not transmit Minimum Data Set (MDS) Optional State Assessments (OSAs) to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES).

On Oct. 1, 2023, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Resident Assessment Validation and Entry System will no longer be supported by CMS.