Home and Community-Based Programs Rule Change Overview

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) final rule on January 16, 2014, which came into effect on March 17, 2014. The new rule applies to both residential and non-residential settings and changes the standards by which states are allowed to pay for HCBS. Highlights of the new rule include the following:

  1. Ensuring that individuals have been given choices regarding their setting options.
  2. Guaranteeing individuals’ rights of privacy, dignity, respect, and freedom from coercion and restraint.
  3. Optimizing autonomy and independence in making life choices.
  4. Facilitating choice in services and those who provide it.​
 
  
  
  
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Appendix 1 Autism Waiver Recipients and Providers.pdf
  
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Appendix 10 Hilltop HCBS Final Rule Provider Self-Assessment Summary 2014.pdf
  
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Appendix 10a Hilltop HCBS Final Rule Provider Self-Assessment Summary 2016.pdf
  
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Appendix 11 Medicaid and DDA Mail Merge Letters.pdf
  
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Appendix 12 and 13 Community Settings Questionnaires (CSQs) 2017.pdf
  
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Appendix 14 OHS Crosswalk.pdf
  
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Appendix 2 Home and Community-Based Options Waiver Recipients and Providers.pdf
  
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Appendix 3 Community Pathway Waiver Recipients and Providers.pdf
  
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Appendix 4 Medical Day Care Recipients and Providers.pdf
  
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Appendix 5 Model Waiver for Medically Fragile Children Recipients and Providers.pdf
  
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Appendix 6 Traumatic Brain Injury Recipients and Providers by Waiver Service.pdf
  
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Appendix 7 DDA Shared Living Summary.pdf
  
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Appendix 8 DDA Residential Provider Summary.pdf
  
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Appendix 9 DDA Day and Supported Employment Provider Summary.pdf
  
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