Texas Health and Human Services has released their “HCBS Assessment Results: Intellectual and Developmental Disability Program External Assessment Report” for stakeholders to review.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule that defines the settings in which states can offer Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS). Initially CMS gave states five years to put the new rule into effect, but a three-year extension was granted making the new deadline March 2022.
As part of the statewide project to assess compliance with the settings component of the CMS HCBS rule, the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services (DADS) Center for Policy and Innovation (CPI) developed and distributed a self-assessment to providers of the following Home and Community-based Services (HCS) waiver services:
- supervised living and residential support services
- host home/companion care services
- day habilitation
- employment assistance
- supported employment
Case managers and service coordinators were also assessed. The full report (PDF) shares the findings of this assessment.
More information about HCBS can be found here: https://hhs.texas.gov/services/health/medicaid-chip/about-medicaid-chip/homecommunity-based-services
There is currently not an email address or mailbox to for stakeholders to leave comments about this report.