Duane Mayes
Director

SDS Newsletter -Feb. 2014

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Headlines

• 4/3 SDS E-Alert - Statewide Moratorium on Enrollment of New Personal Care Assistance Agencies
  
• 4/2 CMS 1915(c) Medicaid Waiver Changes
  
  • CMS Information
  • SDS CMS Regulation Presentation
• 3/18 FAQs for Enterprise Webinar Series
  
• 2/27 Automated Service Plan Project Underway!
  
• 2/25 Tanana Chiefs Conference in cooperation with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services delivers home and community-based services in remote villages. View the video: Keeping Elders in the Village
  
• 12/18 Enterprise Weekly Status Report
  
• 12/10 Enterprise Service Authorizations Update
  
• 11/25 Good Faith Services suspended from Medicaid due to credible allegation of fraud
  
• 10/17 Charges filed against a PCA worker for fraudulently billing Medicaid $94,000.
  
• 10/15 The window to sign up for Medicare prescription plans is now open!
  
• 9/20 Alaska's Adult Protective Services unit presents its Community Commitment Award to Alzheimer's Resource of Alaska
  
• 8/7 SDS Director Duane Mayes talks with KTUU Ch 2 about Alaska’s rapidly growing senior population – the fastest in the nation – and what we’ll need to build to support them.
  
• 7/11 Governor Parnell signs Silver Alert Legislation.
  
• 7/9 Twenty-nine Anchorage based personal care attendants and Medicaid recipients charge for medical assistance fraud.
  
• 7/2 FAQs have been added to the information provided under the new regulation links.
  Check back as more FAQs become available.
• 6/3 Amendments to regulations at 7 AAC 130.200 – 130.319 governing Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver Services were published by the Lieutenant Governor on May 29, 2013 and will become effective July 1, 2013.
  The regulation package includes new standards for operation of home and a community-based service agencies set out in the Conditions of Participation, and introduces two newly realigned waivers. Overall, the regulations and Conditions of Participation set rules for participant eligibility, the process of participant enrollment in waiver programs, home and community-based service provider certification, participant safeguards, and the provision of home and community-based services.

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