The Office of Community Living (OCL) within the Department of health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has the following information to share below:

Announcements:

• Upcoming Public Hearing: Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board

• Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule Repeal for Case Management Redesign (CMRD)

General OCL Meetings:

• Participant-Directed Programs Policy Collaborative (PDPPC)

Announcements

Upcoming Public Hearing: Direct Care Workforce Stabilization Board

Thank you for sharing this information with members, direct care workers, employers, and other interested stakeholders. You can participate online or in person.

Three additional public hearings will also be held in Aurora, Pueblo, and Grand Junction soon. More information about this and future hearings can be found at the HCPF Direct Care Workforce webpage.

The initial online and in-person hearing will be held:

Thursday, March 28, 2024

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. MT

Online Registration via Zoom

In-person location:

Boulder Marriott

2660 Canyon Boulevard

Boulder, CO 80302

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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 Repealed rules span between 8.300 to 8.600 and exclude rules such as Pre-admission Screening and Resident Review (PASRR), nursing facilities, and provider wage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to eliminate duplications and outdated language as a result of the new CMRD rules.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.

General OCL Meetings

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.

Participant-Directed Programs Policy Collaborative (PDPPC)

The PDPPC is a collaboration between stakeholders and HCPF, focusing on issues related to Participant-Directed Programs, which include Consumer-Directed Attendant Support Services (CDASS) and In-Home Support Services (IHSS). All interested stakeholders are welcome to attend.

PDPPC information, including meeting documents and recordings, can be found on the PDPPC webpage. This webpage also contains contact information for the PDPPC stakeholder co-chairs (who are not HCPF staff) and HCPF staff.

The meeting will be held:

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

1 to 4 p.m. MT

Join via Zoom

Join via Phone:

(Toll-free) 1-877-853-5257

Meeting ID: 969 4053 6000, Passcode: 115140

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.

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