AFC, AL/RC, CBA HCSSA, DAHS, FMS, HDM, MDCP, Out-of-Home Respite ADC and AL/RC, PHC, and TAS:
DADS notified contracted providers of changes to contract and fiscal compliance monitoring protocol in relation to negative billing. (Letter)
— (Published on the DADS site today, 6/18) DADS will hold the quarterly HCSSA stakeholder meeting this Friday, June 21, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Public Hearing Room in the Winters Building, 701 W. 51st Street, Austin. Agenda (PDF)
— DADS will hold a HCSSA Region 10 provider meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Educational Service Center – 19, Head Start MPC, 11670 Chito Samanietgo, El Paso. You may register here.
— DADS will hold a HCSSA Region 7 provider meeting on Monday, July 29, 2013, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the Winters Public Hearing Rooms: 125E, 125W and 125C, 701 W. 51st. St., Austin. You may register here.
— Effective immediately, DADS and the Board of Nursing have determined that providers participating in the LVN On-Call Pilot Program and those not participating are no longer required to enter data into CARE Screen 691.
— DADS revised IL 13-26 to extend the deadline for compliance to November 1, 2013, when the Texas Home Living rule will be effective. Contact txhml@dads.state.tx.us with questions.
— Contract re-enrollment update excerpt:
IL 13-19 notified providers required to use EVV of the planned contract re-enrollment for all contracts subject to EVV requirements. On May 1, providers were sent documents necessary to re-enroll their contracts. Currently, the reports necessary to monitor EVV contract compliance are not available in the Santrax system. Some providers have expressed concerns about being subject to compliance requirements before those reports are available.
— DADS will host five regional conferences for IDD waiver providers in July and August 2013. You may register here.
— The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies at the Texas Department of State Health Services asks all administrators and owners of licensed and certified home health and hospice agencies to complete a short survey in the summer of 2013. See the news alert page for details.
See the news page for more information about these and other alerts.