Communications
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Communications
This page provides a subset of communications from DADS to its services providers and shows the five most recent items in each category.
Please note that items dated before Sept. 1, 2004, were created by DADS' legacy agencies — Texas Department on Aging, Texas Department of Human Services or Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
News & Alerts
- Community Living Assistance and Support Services (CLASS) Form Revision Notice: Instructions to Form 3660 (May 18, 2012)
- Electronic Document Submission pilot project: survey now available (May 16, 2012)
- Activities in a Person Directed Environment: DADS Culture Change Initiative Webinars series continues (May 15, 2012)
- Save the Date: DADS 2012 ICF/ID Provider and Surveyor Conference August 29-30, Austin, Texas (May 14, 2012)
- jRAVEN version 1.1.5 available to install (May 11, 2012)
- Previous Alerts
| Number | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| IL 2012-53 PDF | Changes to Mandatory Participation in Electronic Visit Verification for Individuals Using the Consumer Directed Services Option | 05/18/2012 |
| IL 2012-40 PDF | Important July 1, 2012, EDI 5010 Compliance Deadline Information -- affects Provider Claim Payment for ANSI Claim Submitters Only | 05/15/2012 |
| IL 2012-50 PDF | 2011 Cost Report Notification and Cost Report Training Reminders | 05/07/2012 |
| PL 2012-14 PDF | Human Resource Code (HRC) §§161.091 161.096 Enforcement Schedule and Required Elements of the Comprehensive Nursing Assessment for the Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) On-Call Pilot Program and Medication Administration by an Unlicensed Person (Replaces PL 12-08) | 05/03/2012 |
| IL 2012-36 PDF | Use of Form 3618 when an individual residing in a nursing facility elects hospice (replaces Information Letter No. 11-88) | 05/01/2012 |
All information and provider letters
| Number | Title | Contact Memo |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12-29 PDF | Publication of Final Rule "Medicare and Medicaid Program; Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction CMS-9070-F" | Memo | 05/11/2012 |
| 12-27 PDF | Utilizing the US Bureau of the Census' (Census Bureau) American FactFinder Database when making a Rural Area Location Determination | Memo | 04/20/2012 |
| 12-26 PDF | Home Health Survey and Certification Activities Related to Program Safeguards: Deactivation | Memo | 04/06/2012 |
| 12-25 PDF | Revisions to the Minimum Data Set (MDS) 3.0 Resident Assessment Instrument (RAI) Manual and Item | Memo | 03/30/2012 |
| 12-23 PDF | Information: Reducing Avoidable Hospitalizations Among Nursing Facility Residents; State Survey Agency Director Role in Applications | Memo | 03/16/2012 |
| Number | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2011-08 PDF | Transferring Liquid Oxygen from One Container to Another (Replaces S&CC 03-16) | 12/23/2011 |
| 2011-05 PDF | Distinction between HCSSA Services and Babysitting/Child Care Services | 11/21/2011 |
| 2011-04 PDF | Administrative Personnel Evaluations | 09/20/2011 |
| 2011-01 PDF | Retention of Client Records and Electronic Health Records | 09/19/2011 |
| 2011-06 PDF | Identifiers and Identifier Key (Replaces S&CC 04-17 and S&CC 06-01) | 08/23/2011 |
| Number | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2012-04 PDF | CMS Region VI-Dallas Delegation of Notification of the Imposition and Starting Date of Optional Denial of Payment for New Admissions to the State Survey Agencies in Region VI | 03/14/2012 |
| 2012-02 PDF | Procedural Instructions for Processing Certifications Concerning Legal Names and Doing Business as Names of Providers and Suppliers | 02/17/2012 |
| 2012-01 PDF | Voluntary Termination and Related Processes | 02/10/2012 |
| 2010-02 PDF | Documents for Processing Certification Actions for All Non-Long Term Care Providers/Suppliers (except ICFs/MR and Clinical Laboratories) | 05/27/2010 |
| 2010-01 PDF | Processing of Potential Provider Requests for Exception to the Priority Assignment of Initial Surveys | 03/02/2010 |
Updated: February 25, 2011