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February 8 ICF/IID Provider Bed Hold Payments Webinar and Reminder to Provide Letter to Families

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IL 2020-43, ICF/IID Services During COVID-19 directed program providers to give a copy of the letter attached to that IL to each resident who was:

  • Absent from an ICF/IID.
  • Not on leave.
  • Was not discharged from the ICF/IID.

If you have not provided the letter to residents who meet that criteria, do so immediately. It was to be complete by October 5, 2020. You must assist residents in deciding to do only one of the following:

  • Return to the facility.
  • Continue to be absent from the facility, be discharged, but enter into an agreement with the ICF/IID to hold your place at the facility.
  • Continue to be absent from the facility and be discharged.

HHSC Medicaid and CHIP Services will issue instructions to providers about entering COVID-19 therapeutic leave for days a resident was away from an ICF/IID to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Register for the following webinar to review the emergency rules authorizing this leave and the instructions for entering it.

ICF/IID Provider Bed Hold Payments Webinar
Friday, February 5
9:30 – 11:00 a.m. 
Register for the Bed Hold Payment Webinar.

The emergency rule authorizing payment for COVID-19 therapeutic leave (PDF) is effective January 29, 2021.