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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has approved the Office of Long-Term Living’s (OLTL) OBRA Waiver Amendment. Changes in the approved OBRA Waiver Amendment include:

  • Revised the Benefits Counseling service definition;
  • Amended the responsibilities of the Fiscal/Employer Agent;
  • Updated Appendix H Quality Improvement Strategy to the current process; and
  • Removed performance measure AA-6, as the data in AA-6 is being collected by AA-5.

The current approved OBRA Waiver document can be viewed here. If you have any questions, please contact the OLTL Bureau of Policy Development and Communications Management at (717) 857-3280.

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ODP Announcement 23-033 shares that data is now available from the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) Quality Assessment and Improvement (QA&I) Individual Interviews Report for Interim Year 1 and Interim Year 2. The report provides aggregated individual response data from QA&I individual interviews conducted during IY1 and IY2 of the QA&I cycle for all ODP waivers.

Access this report here. This document can also be found by visiting MyODP and following this path: Resources > Quality Management > QAI Reports. All QA&I reports are available here.

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The upcoming AAW quarterly meetings will be held for all Office of Developmental Programs (ODP) providers and Support Coordinators (SC) providing AAW services. Pam Treadway and Heather Easley will facilitate these meetings with the intent to provide updates on incident and risk management related activities, share AAW data, inform providers of any upcoming changes, review ODP expectations, etc. Providers will be able to network with one another and ask questions directly to BSASP.

The upcoming meeting will have a focus on restrictive interventions. Our BSASP clinical colleague, Jordan Hollander, will join for this focused topic presentation/discussion.

Friday, April 14
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Register Here
Multiple staff from a provider may attend but should register separately. Be sure to complete all required information to confirm attendance.  A link to the meeting will be send prior to the scheduled meeting date.

Future Meeting Dates:

  • July 18, 9:00 am – 10:30 am
  • October 19, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Registration announcements for future dates will be sent out prior to the meeting date.

Please contact the Provider Support inbox with questions.

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The RCPA ICWC/CCBHC meeting that was originally scheduled for April 11 has been rescheduled to May 24. This is so RCPA Policy Directors and members can view the House Budget Hearings for DHS, which are scheduled April 11. The meeting time will remain the same, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, as will the format. Please register for the meeting here, and note that if you registered for the April 11 meeting, you will need to re-register for this event.

We apologize for any inconvenience; however, the activities at the hearings are critical to our ongoing advocacy efforts. Please contact Jim Sharp if you have any questions or concerns.

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created short videos and developed patient cue cards to assist providers with learning how to code patient assessment instruments for the following Post-Acute Care (PAC) Quality Reporting Programs (QRP):

Help LTCH, IRF, and HH patients select responses by showing them the new cue cards for:

See LTCH, IRF, HH, and SNF Quality Reporting Program Training for more information.

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