Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) has completed the conversion, from Microsoft Word to Excel, of the contract and fiscal compliance monitoring tools for Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS) Case Management Agencies (CMAs) and Direct Service Agencies (DSA). Go to http://www.dads.state.tx.us/providers/communications/2014/letters/IL2014-65.pdf for more info.
Benefits to using the Excel based contract and fiscal compliance monitoring tools include: · Use of formulas for entry of responses to questions;
· Responses auto-populate from Individual Work Papers to the Workbook Compliance
Summary;
· Scores calculate automatically on the Workbook Compliance Summary; and
· Data is extracted from the tool into databases used to evaluate DADS programs and provide
performance data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services about waiver programs.
During the conversion to Excel, the CMA and DSA tools were updated to remove obsolete requirements subsequent to revisions to Texas Administrative Code, Title 40, Part 1, Chapter 45, Community Living Assistance and Support Services, effective March 2011. Both the CMA and DSA tools were also revised to instruct contract staff to select a random month within the monitoring period, rather than the last month of the monitoring period, to verify documentation of the agency’s search of the List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) as required.
The revision to the DSA tool also included the addition of employment assistance and the requirement to notify habilitation service providers of the required minimum wage of $7.86 per hour.
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