| To: | Home and Community Based Service Providers |
| Date: | November 9, 2016 |
| Re: | Revised Statewide Transition Plan for Home and Community-Based Settings |
In January 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published final rules that require all Medicaid HCBS settings to demonstrate the characteristics of a community-based, rather than an institutional, setting. Under the federal rule, settings that do not demonstrate those characteristics cannot participate in Medicaid HCBS programs. Federal CMS requires states to assess their current HCBS settings. Over the past several months hundreds of sites throughout Illinois have had on-site visits to assess compliance with the new federal rule. Those visits are now complete.
If your location had a visit, follow up correspondence will occur from the State Operating Agency that administers your program. If your location did not have a visit, please remember that the new federal rules will apply to your location and that every HCBS setting is required to maintain compliance with the rule. Please review the blank copy of the On Site Assessment Tool that was utilized during recent visits at locations around the state. The questions utilized within that document will be integrated into your future compliance visits with the State of Illinois. It is imperative that your location be compliant with the new federal rule and that when your next accreditation/licensure visit occurs you are able to demonstrate adherence to the new federal rule.
Comments may be submitted by email to HFS.SWTransitionPlan@illinois.gov, or written comments may be mailed to:
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family ServicesAttn: Waiver Management201 South Grand Ave East, FL 2Springfield, IL 62763
Felicia F. Norwood
Director
