1E Relating to human services; placing unlicensed personal care assistant services under home care bill of rights regulation, disqualifying personal care provider organizations from department of human services (DHS) medical assistance (MA) enrollment upon findings of predecessor organization crime conviction or previous documented violations, requiring background studies for professionals, requiring qualified professionals to supervise personal care assistants and prohibiting personal care assistants from acting as qualified professionals, requiring audits to include regular data analysis of paid claims, requiring assessment and service plans to be provided electronically or by mail, requiring service plans to be consistent under conditions of enrollment and disenrollment from a managed care plan, specifying fiscal intermediaries as financially liable for improper payments, designating human services department responsibility for assessing and investigating unlicensed personal care assistant provider organization maltreatment under MA, designating health department responsibility for assessing and investigating home care provider child maltreatment, requiring home health care agencies and personal care assistant providers to develop individual abuse prevention plans for children receiving services; requiring commissioner of human services (DHS) to implement mandatory personal care assistant assessments, provider training and service needs guidelines
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