Legislative Session number- 86

Bill Name: SF1229

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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