HSC, TxHml, and LA:
An excerpt of what DADS expects from providers when an individual receiving waiver services is admitted to a state hospital or other behavioral health facility for psychiatric stabilization:
A Home and Community-based Services (HCS) or Texas Home Living Program (TxHmL) program provider is responsible for placing an individual who is admitted to a state hospital or inpatient behavioral health facility on suspension from waiver services for the duration of the individual’s in-patient stay. The program provider is prohibited from billing waiver services while the individual is served by an in-patient behavioral health facility. The following rules address responsibilities of program providers and local authorities in ensuring continuity of care for the individual.
— HHSC adopted amendments to §19.101, Definitions, and §19.1601, Infection Control, in Chapter 19, Nursing Facility Requirements for Licensure and Medicaid Certification, which require NFs to develop policies for vaccinating employees and contractors to protect residents from vaccine-preventable diseases.
— HHSC also adopted amendments to Subchapter A, §92.2, Definitions; Subchapter C, §92.41, Standards for Type A and type B assisted living facilities; and Subchapter H, Division 9, §92.551, Administrative Penalties, in Chapter 92, Licensing Standards for Assisted Living Facilities. Among other things, the changes allow an AL to proactively submit documents to waive the requirement to discharge an inappropriately placed resident instead of waiting for DADS to make the initial determination.
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