Notice of the new Provider Orientation materials, developed after a stakeholders redesign. Download]

 

Answers to those burning questions.  A ton of questions about Tier 1 and 2 crimes, as well as Provider Enrollment issues.  The ACIN also includes a new notice, awkwardly entitled, “Notice to Provider of Provider Eligibility Acknowledgement of Receipt of Waiver,” a topic covered in the forms/notices portion of the ACIN.  [Download]

AB 19 provided that IHSS providers are to get notice of what services are authorized. This ACIN transmits the new form to do this.  [Download]

 

SB 930 eliminated several IHSS program requirements established under prior legislation. This letter implements the repeal of the provisions requiring finger images and assessments and on timesheets, and the bar on PO Boxes for IHSS providers. It also permits the release of state-level criminal offender record information (CORI) search responses to individuals determined ineligible to be IHSS providers based on CORI information.  [Download]

Some wording changes, clarification of a Licensed Health Care Provider (LHCP) and one significant improvement. To remove barriers to verification for those living near the state borders, counties are now given the flexibility to make case-by-case exceptions basis and accept an SOC 873 (or alternative documentation) completed by an LHCP  licensed in another state but if they are an approved Medi-Cal provider, and the applicant/recipient has been receiving treatment from them.  The Notice also instructs what counties should do if the LHCP fills out the first two questions (need for IHSS) but fail to fill out the details requested in the subsequent questions. The new forms attached to this notice are effective immediately.  [Download]