Provider Resource: ADP Payroll & HR Services

Get Your Promotions for Becoming A New ADP Client:  – 1st  3 months free   – Other Discounts Available! *Please Let ADP know how you found out about their services to get your 1st 3 months free!   August 21st, 2023 Twogether Consulting strives to find a variety of good resources for our IDD providers and hope that ADP may be able to help some of you out there with Payroll and HR needs. Our newest contact from ADP is, Sophia Luna. She is the Small...

Please Fill Out The ISS Survey!

August 16th, 2023  ISS Survey From July 2023: HHSC posted a survey (9 questions) asking comprehensive service providers to complete.  The survey is intended to gather information about ISS network adequacy and to determine what, if any changes, are needed.   CMS  is hoping to use the data to find out how the transition is going. HHSC stated that it only received 262 responses, some were incomplete, and some were completed by an ISS only (independent ISS) provider....

 ISS Remediation & Validation Process

August 15th, 2023 Remediation & Validation Process  This is a process of performing on-site visits to determine compliance by ISS providers, with certain HCBS Settings rules and other rules:   HHSC reviewed the process and the assessment tool being used.  Here is the information letter sent out previously. IL-2023-28  https://www.hhs.texas.gov/sites/default/files/documents/il2023-28.pdf Please note the information about the required attestation form that must...

New Quarterly HH/CC On-Site Visits/Reviews

August, 15th, 2023 Compliance with new rules in Ch 565 on additional oversight for HH/CC service providers & Individuals receiving services Concerning the now required quarterly HH/CC On-site Visits to review specific areas that providers must conduct, providers have expressed concerns about HH/CC service providers being very upset with this new change of more oversight by the provider and HHSC, and they have concerns that it will be too intrusive. There are...

HELPFUL TIPS: For Individualized Skills & Socialization (ISS) Providers

July 31st, 2023 Just wanted to post some helpful tips for all of the new ISS providers out there.  #1. Be sure you date your ISS policies, and specifically for any Evacuation &/or Emergency Response Procedures  When you revise them, show the revision dates on those policies. ISS Service Providers can receive a violation from the survey team for not doing so. #2. Be sure to get with your local emergency response coordinators in your areas, to help you with...