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Policy & Advocacy
Medicare & Medicaid
NRCPDS Releases Home Care Rule Tool Kit for Stakeholders Responding to New FLSA Requirements
The National Resource Center for Participant Directed Services (NRCPDS) is out with a new resource for participant direction program stakeholders, including consumers and their families, state agencies and others, in response to new Labor Department rules that will take effect January 1, 2015.
Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities (IDD)
Medicare & Medicaid
Self-Direction
Four Tips for Consumer Advocates Evaluating Medicaid HCBS Transition Plans
States now are beginning to release their transition plans to bring their Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) systems into compliance with the new federal regulations on community-based settings.
Policy & Advocacy
Self-Direction
Medicare & Medicaid
Aligning Goals with Managed Care Contracts: Person-centered Planning in MLTSS
In a new policy issue brief , the National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC) examines person-centered service planning in the context of both managed care and the recent HCBS Final Rule, analyzing what states are doing – through their Medicaid Long-Term Services and Supports programs – to ensure person-centered planning.
Policy & Advocacy
Self-Direction
Medicare & Medicaid
DOL Announces Time-limited Non-enforcement Policy for Home Care Final Rule
This afternoon, the Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division gave notice of a 12-month, time-limited non-enforcement policy with regard to the Oct.
Social Security
Call for Papers on SSDI Program Improvements; Respond by Nov. 1
The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Solutions Initiative – an effort of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget – has issued a call for papers to identify ideas to improve the SSDI program.
Employment & Workforce
Medicare & Medicaid
Self-Direction
CMS Releases HCBS Statewide Transition Plan Toolkit
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new resource today as part of the agency’s larger Home and Community-Based (HCB) Settings Requirements Compliance Toolkit .
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