The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below: | |
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Announcements:
- Joint Resolution for Direct Care Workforce Appreciation Week
- 🚩 NEW: Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Provider Webinar
- Providers: In Case You Missed It - New Provider Portal Quick Guides
- REMINDER: Care and Case Management (CCM) System Trainings
- REMINDER - Important Communication - Reinstatement of LTSS members who lost eligibility effective March 31, 2024
- REMINDER: Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule Repeal for Case Management Redesign (CMRD)
Memo:
- Professional Medical Information Page Signature Date in Care and Case Management
General OCL Meetings:
- Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Quarterly General Stakeholder Meeting
- Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting
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Joint Resolution for Direct Care Workforce Appreciation Week
The Direct Care Workforce Collaborative Leadership Team is proud to announce the Direct Care Worker Appreciation Week Joint Resolution (HJR-1022), sponsored by Representative Mary Young, Representative Monica Duran, Senator Jessie Danielson, and Senator Tony Exum. This Resolution names April 7 through April 13, 2024, Direct Care Worker Appreciation Week, and further names the first full week of April every year Direct Care Worker Appreciation Week.
The Joint Resolution was acknowledged by both the House and Senate on Monday April 8, 2024, and can be viewed on https://coloradochannel.net/. Resolution language and additional information can be found at https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hjr24-1022.
Thank you to all who made this Resolution a possibility, but most importantly, thank you to Colorado's direct care workforce!
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🚩 NEW: Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) Provider Webinar Announcement:
Join HCPF on April 25, 2024, from 10 to 11 a.m. MT for a presentation to providers on the work being done to stabilize the LTSS system amidst several concurrent changes – Public Health Emergency (PHE) Unwind, the new Care and Case Management IT system, and Case Management Redesign - and the impacts on provider payments.
To ensure that the most relevant topics are being covered, please use this form to submit your questions or topic suggestions. We will collect submissions until Thursday, April 18, 2024.
Please note: Questions about specific member issues will not be addressed at this webinar. If you are experiencing an issue specific to a member, please use the escalation form and it will be addressed as quickly as possible.
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REMINDER: Care and Case Management (CCM) System Trainings
Greetings to all Case Management Agencies!
Your input has been invaluable, and in response, we’re excited to offer a series of Care and Case Management (CCM) system trainings to enhance your learning and mastery All Case Managers are encouraged to attend.
Upcoming Training Sessions:
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
10 to-11 a.m. MT
Focus: Program Card Demonstration, Learning Resources Overview, and Q&A session.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
10 to 11 a.m. MT
Focus: Service Plan, Care Plan & Bridge Interface Demonstration, Learning Resources Overview, and Q&A session.
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
10 to 11 a.m. MT
Focus: Queues and Tasks Demonstration, Learning Resources Overview, and Q&A session.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
10 to 11 a.m. MT
Focus: To Be Determined
Additional sessions will be announced in due course.
Registration is mandatory. These sessions will not be recorded. We look forward to your participation! If you have questions, please email crodriguez@assurecare.com.
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REMINDER - Important Communication - Reinstatement of LTSS members who lost eligibility effective March 31, 2024
As previously communicated, the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) is working towards temporarily pausing terminations for Long-Term Services and Support (LTSS) members. However, a number of LTSS members received a termination for various reasons effective March 31, 2024. We have reinstated these members as of April 1, 2024.
Impacted members who received a termination notice for March 31, 2024 will be receiving or have already received a new notice of action letter indicating an approval effective as of April 1, 2024. Electronic messages to impacted members were sent between Saturday, March 23rd and Friday, March 29th. Mailed notices were sent between Monday, March 25th and Monday, April 1st.
If an LTSS member reaches out to you because they received a termination effective March 31, 2024, please share this information with them, as those not receiving their communications electronically may be delayed in receiving a communication via USPS mail.
Please know that keeping LTSS members connected to vital services is our number one priority. We are working through both short, mid, and long-term solutions to remedy eligibility issues and other system transformation challenges as quickly as possible. Thank you for your continued partnership and for using our escalations form when needed so we can help members stay connected to services.
To review and access Notice of Action Letters, review this step by step guide in English or Spanish.
Bookmark the Stabilizing LTSS page for other important updates and links to helpful sections of the HCPF website.
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REMINDER: Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule Repeal for Case Management Redesign (CMRD)
On Jan. 12, 2024, the Medical Services Board (MSB) approved the CMRD rule for final adoption. Office of Community Living (OCL) staff will return to MSB on May 10, 2024, to begin presentations on the repeal of duplicative rules as a result of the new CMRD rules. Repealed rules span between 8.300 to 8.600 and exclude rules such as Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR), nursing facilities, and provider wage increase, among others.
No new policies or benefits are included in this repeal. The purpose of the repeal is
to eliminate duplications and outdated language as a result of the new CMRD rules.
Stakeholders may find the redlined document on the CMRD webpage. Stakeholders are encouraged to contact the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) with questions or requests for changes before April 15, 2024.
Please note: the redlined document is subject to changes and updates up to the MSB submission deadline of April 15, 2024.
As a reminder, the stakeholder input process leading to this approval included the following:
- OCL staff conducted 9 months of stakeholder engagement every other week presenting the rewritten rules to a group of 100-150 stakeholders and documenting feedback. The log sheet can be found on the CMRD webpage.
- OCL staff attended the MSB on Dec. 8, 2023, to present the rules created with OCL staff and stakeholders. On that date, the MSB approved the rule for initial adoption with the commitment from OCL staff to work with stakeholders on updates for the final draft.
- OCL staff announced and conducted a period of additional stakeholder feedback from Dec. 8, 2023 to Dec. 21, 2023.
- OCL staff attended the MSB on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, to present the rules created with OCL staff and stakeholders and was given final approval for implementation.
For more information, contact Tiffani Domokos at tiffani.domokos@state.co.us.
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Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Information about these and other OCL meetings is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage. | |
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Quarterly General Stakeholder Meeting
This webinar meeting seeks and utilizes stakeholder engagement for the successful implementation, operation, and maintenance of the EVV program. This meeting is held quarterly (January, April, July, and October) on the third Tuesday from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. MT.
The meeting will be held:
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. MT
Join via Zoom
Join via Phone:
(Toll-free) 1-833-548-0276
Meeting ID: 976 3310 3112, Passcode: 042323
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Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting
This meeting focuses on Medicaid-related developments related to Nursing Facility reimbursement and benefits. This includes, but is not limited to, procedural reviews, benefit interactions, policy clarifications, and cyclical business operations.
The Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 1 to 3 p.m. MT. All interested stakeholders are welcome.
The meeting will be held:
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
1 to 3 p.m. MT
Join via Google Meet
Join via Phone:
1-401-379-3164, PIN: 406 137 468#
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Need to Make an Accommodation Request for One of Our General OCL or ARPA-Related Stakeholder Meetings?
Reasonable accommodations for all OCL and ARPA-related stakeholder meetings will be provided upon request for persons with disabilities. Auxiliary aids and services for individuals with disabilities and language services for individuals whose first language is not English may be provided upon request. Please notify John Barry at 303-866-3173 or John.R.Barry@state.co.us or the 504/ADA Coordinator at hcpf504ada@state.co.us at least one week prior to the meeting to make arrangements.
General OCL Meetings are on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.
ARPA-Related Meetings are on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage.
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Looking for Prior OCL Communications?
Do you know about the OCL LTSS Newsletter Archive? On this page, you can:
- Search OCL newsletters back to January 2022
- Subscribe to the newsletter
- Keep track of OCL announcements, meeting reminders, and memos
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