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TITLE 26HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
PART 1HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION
CHAPTER 260DEAF BLIND WITH MULTIPLE DISABILITIES (DBMD) PROGRAM AND COMMUNITY FIRST CHOICE (CFC) SERVICES
SUBCHAPTER FSERVICE DESCRIPTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS
DIVISION 4NON-BILLABLE TIME AND ACTIVITIES
RULE §260.357Non-Billable Time and Activities

A program provider must not bill for and HHSC does not reimburse for:

  (1) services provided to an individual before HHSC's approval of the individual's request for enrollment in the DBMD Program;

  (2) supervision of service providers unless providing delegated tasks;

  (3) phone calls, text messages, emails, letters, or meetings with HHSC or community resources that do not directly address an individual's services;

  (4) administrative meetings or staff meetings;

  (5) in-service training, general training, continuing education, or conferences;

  (6) employee conferences or evaluations;

  (7) filing claims for services;

  (8) traveling to and from an individual's residence, except when a day habilitation, transportation provided as a residential habilitation activity, or in-home respite service provider is transporting the individual;

  (9) processing paperwork or completing records or reports;

  (10) services not included on an approved IPC;

  (11) services that are mutually exclusive;

  (12) other services and activities not authorized, permitted, or allowed under this chapter;

  (13) routine care and supervision that a family member is legally obligated to provide;

  (14) activities or supervision for which a payment is made by a source other than Medicaid;

  (15) room and board;

  (16) any expense related to providing transportation provided as a residential habilitation activity, nursing, out-of-home respite in a camp, case management, adaptive aids, intervener services, or CFC PAS/HAB outside the program provider's contracted service delivery area, including costs for transportation or lodging;

  (17) transportation provided as a residential habilitation activity, nursing, out-of-home respite in a camp, case management, adaptive aids, intervener services, or CFC PAS/HAB provided to an individual outside the program provider's contracted service delivery area if the individual has received services outside the program provider's contracted service delivery during a period of more than 60 consecutive days;

  (18) two or more services provided at the same time by the same service provider; or

  (19) an item or service provided to an individual at the request of the individual or LAR that is not a reimbursable item in the DBMD Program.


Source Note: The provisions of this §260.357 adopted to be effective February 26, 2023, 48 TexReg 896

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