by Julie Blacklock | Apr 18, 2025
April 18th, 2025 Job Position Lone Star HCS (Conroe, Tx) Job Position: Host Home/Companion Care Service Provider Please see information below and contacts to respond. Looking for Host Home/Companion Care provider who wants to care for 3 young men, 2 of which are fairly independent. The 3rd individual needs a bit more help with hygiene and meal preparation. The host home is located in the Woodlands, Texas area near Conroe and Houston. If you are...
by Julie Blacklock | Apr 15, 2025
April 15th, 2025 The proposed billing requirement revisions and a summary of changes are located on the Long-term Care Providers webpage and are outlined below: HCS CFC Billing Requirements for HCS and TxHmL Program Providers Draft Revision 25-1(PDF) CFC Billing Requirements for HCS and TxHmL Program Providers Draft Revision 25-1 Summary of Changes (PDF)
by Julie Blacklock | Apr 15, 2025
April 15th, 2025 From our friends at Texas Council on Developmental Disabilities: IDD Coordinating Council TCDD Senior Public Policy Analyst Lauren Gerken provided verbal testimony on March 25 to the House Human Services Committee on House Bill (HB) 2807, which would establish a statewide intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) coordinating council. She discussed how this new council would bring multiple agencies together to develop strategies on...
by Julie Blacklock | Apr 10, 2025
April 10th, 2025 Resource Links: Consideration of the budget as well as HB 500, the supplemental budget, by the House will occur today at 9:00am, Thursday, April 10th. HB 500 (supplemental): https://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/89R/billtext/pdf/HB00500H.pdf#navpanes=0 House Rules Adopted related to Consideration of the Budget: To view the rules adopted by the House on April 2, 2025 related to consideration of the budget (SB 1), see pages 2 – 4...
by Julie Blacklock | Mar 31, 2025
March 31st, 2025 Many of you may know our friend and colleague Marie “Lynn” Palmares. Lynn has worked in ICF and HCS programs in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area for many years. In the past 8 years or so she has been working with the YES waiver program. Lynn has helped many providers as an independent contractor and as a consultant for Twogether Consulting over the past 10 years with their HCS and YES waiver programs. In addition, Lynn has assisted our...
by Julie Blacklock | Mar 30, 2025
March 30th, 2025 Permanent Policy Change for CFC PAS/HAB- Letter 2025-04 HHSC has published Information Letter 2025-04 Permanent Change to HCS and TxHmL Policy for Community First Choice (CFC) personal assistance services (PAS)/habilitation (HAB) service providers. This letter informs financial management services agencies (FMSAs), local intellectual and developmental disability authorities (LIDDAs), and providers of Home and Community-based Services (HCS) and...
