| (a) The following staff must complete the Presurvey
Training before submitting an application for a license:
(1) the administrator and alternate administrator;
and
(2) the supervising nurse and alternate supervising
nurse of an agency that provides licensed home health services with
or without home dialysis designation, licensed and certified home
health services with or without home dialysis designation, or hospice
services.
(b) An applicant may request to be licensed in one
or more of the following categories:
(1) licensed and certified home health services;
(2) licensed and certified home health services with
home dialysis designation;
(3) licensed home health services;
(4) licensed home health services with home dialysis
designation;
(5) hospice services; or
(6) personal assistance services.
(c) HHSC does not require an agency to be licensed
in more than one category if the category for which the agency is
licensed includes the services the agency provides.
(d) An applicant who has requested the category of
licensed and certified home health services on the initial license
application must also apply to CMS for certification as a Medicare-certified
agency under the 42 United States Code Chapter 7, Subchapter XVIII.
(1) While the applicant is waiting for CMS to certify
it as a Medicare-certified agency:
(A) HHSC issues an initial license reflecting the category
of licensed home health services if the applicant meets the criteria
for the license; and
(B) the applicant must comply with the Medicare conditions
of participation for home health agencies in 42 CFR Part 484, as if
the applicant were dually certified.
(2) If CMS certifies an agency to participate in the
Medicare program during the initial license period, HHSC sends a notice
to the agency that the category of licensed and certified home health
services has been added to the license. If the agency wants to remove
the licensed home health services category from the agency's license
after the category of licensed and certified home health services
has been added, the agency must submit to HHSC an application through
the online portal to remove that category from the agency's license.
(3) If CMS denies certification to an agency or an
agency withdraws the application for participation in the Medicare
program, the agency may retain the category of licensed home health
services on its license.
(e) An applicant for an initial license must comply
with §558.30 of this subchapter (relating to Operation of an
Inpatient Unit at a Parent Agency) to operate an inpatient unit at
the applicant's parent agency.
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| Source Note: The provisions of this §558.13 adopted to be effective June 1, 2006, 31 TexReg 1455; amended to be effective January 17, 2018, 43 TexReg 238; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the April 12, 2019, issue of the Texas Register, 44 TexReg 1893; amended to be effective April 25, 2021, 46 TexReg 2427 |
