Week of Jan. 14, 2025





Minnesota Department of Human Services





Aging & Disability
Weekly Updates



*Week of Jan. 14, 2025*






This weekly digest is a method to communicate updates, initiatives and policy changes from the Aging and Adult Services Division (AASD) and Disability Services Division (DSD) in a simplified way. We send this announcement every week on Tuesdays.

In this edition





Joint AASD/DSD messages

* Rate increases and changes to select Moving Home Minnesota (MHM) services [ #MHM ]

 

AASD messages

* Elderly Waiver (EW) amendment approved by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) [ #EW ]



DSD messages

* Disability waiver amendments approved by CMS [ #Disability_waiver ]
* Apply for the External Program Review Committee (EPRC) [ #EPRC ]
* Disability Waiver Rate System (DWRS) compensation threshold policy clarifications [ #DWRS ]





Joint AASD/DSD messages

Rate increases and changes to select MHM services [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* MHM service providers and lead agency staff who work with MHM
* *Effective date:* Jan. 1, 2025
* *Summary:* As of Jan. 1, 2025, DHS increased rates and made changes to select MHM services to align with community standards and program needs.





AASD messages

EW amendment approved by CMS [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agency staff and other interested parties
* *Summary:* CMS approved DHS’ waiver amendment for EW.





DSD messages

Disability waiver amendments approved by CMS [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Lead agency staff and other interested parties
* *Summary:* CMS approved DHS’ waiver amendment package for the Brain Injury (BI), Community Alternative Care (CAC), Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI) and Developmental Disabilities (DD) waivers.

 

Apply for the EPRC [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Licensed health and mental health professionals
* *Summary:* DHS invites qualified licensed professionals with customer service and teamwork skills to apply for the EPRC.

 

DWRS compensation threshold policy clarifications [ [link removed] ]

* *Audience:* Disability waiver service providers
* *Summary:* DHS made clarifying updates to the DWRS compensation threshold policy page and frequently asked questions page. Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, home and community-based services (HCBS) provider organizations are required to spend a specified percentage of their DWRS revenues to compensate direct care staff. DHS will use data collected from the DWRS cost reporting system to confirm HCBS provider organizations’ adherence to this required compensation threshold policy.





AASD ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD LEAD AGENCY ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ] | DSD STAKEHOLDER ARCHIVE [ [link removed] ]

Visit CBSM – What’s new [ [link removed] ] often for a list of policies/pages we’ve recently updated in the Community-Based Services Manual [ [link removed] ].








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