— DADS revised a provider manual: Home-Delivered Meals Provider Manual.
— DADS announced a new provider manual, Consumer Managed Personal Attendant Services Provider Manual.
— Changes to service planning in the HCS are now reflected in the amended sections of the HCS Handbook: Section 4000 (Person Directed Planning Process) and Section 7000 (Implementation Plan and Backup Plan), found on the DADS site. If you have questions, please contact us at hcs@dads.state.tx.
— The CLASS waiver renewal draft is now available for review. DADS will hold a stakeholder meeting on Monday, September 16, 2013. Relevant documents in PDF:
- Stakeholder meeting agenda with review deadline details
- CLASS waiver renewal draft
- Guide to reviewing the waiver application
— The draft SSLC policy is now available for review: Draft Policy #001, Including Attached Draft Definitions. For comments or questions, contact Eric Moorad, Policy/Rules Coordinator, at eric.moorad@dads.state.tx.us or via fax at 512-438-4605 by close of business Friday, September 27, 2013.
— An excerpt of STAR+PLUS Enrollment Letters Sent in Error alert:
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has identified a procedural error that resulted in STAR+PLUS enrollment letters/packets being sent to Department of Aging and Disability Services waiver clients. The mailings were generated due to an error at MAXIMUS (the managed care enrollment broker for HHSC) that allowed clients on the Exclusion File to be outreached for STAR+PLUS enrollment. MAXIMUS has determined there were 9,538 clients outreached under this error. The clients received STAR+PLUS enrollment letters/packets telling them they needed to choose a plan because they were soon going into STAR+PLUS.
— DADS invited all Region 1 NFs to attend a Long Term Care Provider Meeting presented by the regional staff of the DADS, Regulatory Services Division.
MDS 3.0 Updates — Cheryl Shiffer, DADS MDS Clinical Coordinator
PASRR — Heather Cook, DADS PASRR Unit Lead, Access & Intakes
Meetings have been scheduled as follows (both meetings cover the same topics):October 22, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Amarillo College, West Campus
6222 SW 9th Avenue
Amarillo, TX 79106
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Region1LTCAmarilloOctober 23, 2013
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
USDA Building, Large Conference Room
3810 4th Street
Lubbock, TX 79415
Register: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LubbockLTCRegion1
