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The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:
Announcements:
- Register Now for HCPF's Annual Stakeholder Webinar
- Help Us with the Upcoming Direct Care Worker Public Awareness Campaign - Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023
- Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey: Moving the EVV Needle, Tell Us How You EVV? Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023
Memo:
- Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Base Wage Rate Increase 2023 Attestation Reporting Past Due Notification
General OCL Meetings:
- Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) General Stakeholder Meeting
- Nursing Facility Stakeholders Meeting
American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings:
- ARPA 2.02 Statewide Mobile Crisis Response Bi-Weekly Technical Assistance
- Direct Care Workforce Collaborative (DCWC) Compensation & Benefits Action Group
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Register Now for HCPF's Annual Stakeholder Webinar
Please register to join HCPF leaders for a webinar on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. This event will share what we accomplished together last year, address priorities for this fiscal year, and invite stakeholder feedback and comments.
The webinar will be held:
Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023
9 to 11 a.m. MT
Register Here
For other information and materials, see the HCPF Annual Stakeholder Webinar page.
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Help Us with the Upcoming Direct Care Worker Public Awareness Campaign - Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023
Would you like to help inform the approach of the upcoming Direct Care Worker public awareness campaign? Here are three options to share your input. You can use any or all of them!
- Please add your thoughts to the Jamboard.
- Please attend the Direct Care Workforce Collaborative's Value and Awareness Action Group on Friday, July 28, 2023, 1 to 2 p.m. MT. At this meeting, the vendor will attend and solicit stakeholder feedback. You will find meeting information on the Office of Community Living Stakeholder Engagement Calendar.
Feel free to share these links with direct care workers, anyone interested in direct care work, family or friends of direct care workers, or individuals affected by direct care work.
Responses will be kept anonymous. The survey will close Monday, July 31, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. MT.
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Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey: Moving the EVV Needle, Tell Us How You EVV? Deadline Monday, July 31, 2023
EVV Compliance is more than claims paying for EVV. HCPF wants to know how you EVV.
Complete this survey and tell us what gets in the way of collecting EVV in real-time and what you have discovered to help us all get better.
The survey will take five minutes to complete. The deadline is Monday, July 31, 2023.
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Survey: Moving the EVV Needle, Tell Us How You EVV?
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Please find a general OCL meeting announcement listed below. Other OCL meeting information is on the OCL Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage. | |
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) General Stakeholder Meeting
The purpose of this quarterly meeting is to engage providers, members, and all other stakeholders in the operational and maintenance phase of EVV for the State Plan and HCBS waivers; as well as provide EVV program updates.
These quarterly meetings will be held in January, April, July, and October. All interested stakeholders and all EVV stakeholders are welcome.
The meeting will be held:
Tuesday, July 18
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. All interested stakeholders are welcome.
The meeting will be held:
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
1 to 3 p.m. MT
Join via Google Meet
Join via Phone:
1-401-379-3164, PIN:406 137 468#
| American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA)-Related Meetings | Please find an ARPA-related meeting announcement listed below. Other ARPA-related meeting information is on the ARPA Stakeholder Engagement and Calendar webpage. | |
ARPA 2.02 Statewide Mobile Crisis Response Bi-Weekly Technical Assistance
This is an opportunity for Administrative Service Organizations (ASO) / Regional Accountable Entities (RAE), community and members, providers, and any interested stakeholder to ask questions and receive technical assistance related to implementing the Mobile Crisis Medicaid Benefit. These meetings will occur bi-weekly at least through July 2023.
For more information, contact Emily Holcomb at Emily.Holcomb@state.co.us.
The meeting will be held:
Thursday, July 20, 2023
11 a.m. to 12 p.m. MT
Register Here
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Direct Care Workforce Collaborative (DCWC) Compensation & Benefits Action Group
This Action Group works collaboratively with stakeholders to identify and move forward strategies to support the recruitment and retention of Colorado's direct care workforce. This group intends to meet every other month on the third Friday from 1 – 2 p.m. MT.
The meeting will be held:
Friday, July 21, 2023
9 to 10 a.m. MT
Join via Zoom
Join via Phone:
(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257
Meeting ID: 993 1700 7314, Passcode: 396389
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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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Want to Sign up for OCL and HCPF Communications?
If you are not currently on the communications list receiving these emails,
you can sign up here.
See a list of all HCPF newsletters you can subscribe to.
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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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