Declaration for Independence

A Call to Transform Health and Long Term Services for Seniors and People with Disabilities



NRCPDS Releases Home Care Rule Tool Kit for Stakeholders Responding to New FLSA Requirements

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Posted Sep. 8, 2014 | The National Resource Center for Participant Directed Services (NRCPDS) is out with a new resource for participant direction program stakeholders, including consumers and their families, state agencies and others, in response to new Labor Department rules that will take effect January 1, 2015. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Home [...]

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CMS Releases HCBS Statewide Transition Plan Toolkit

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Posted Sep. 5, 2014 | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a new resource today as part of the agency’s larger Home and Community-Based (HCB) Settings Requirements Compliance Toolkit. The Statewide Transition Plan Toolkit provides information on the content and process of the transition plan required from each states under the new federal [...]

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Highlights from Recent HHS Guidance on Person-centered Planning

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Posted July 28, 2014 | On June 6, 2014, the secretary of Health and Human Services issued guidance on person-centered planning and self-direction for implementing Sec. 2402(a) of the Affordable Care Act. This provision of the law requires the secretary to ensure all states develop systems for the delivery of Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) [...]

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Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Goes to President for Signature

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Posted July 14, 2014 | An historic bipartisan, bicameral bill that amends and reauthorizes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) through fiscal year 2020, has been passed by both the Senate and House and is headed to President Obama for signature (on Tuesday, July 22, as reported by the Advocacy Monitor blog). H.R. 803, [...]

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CMS Identifies Options for States Impacted by the Department of Labor Rule

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Posted July 3, 2014 | The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an Information Bulletin (IB) to assist states in the wake of the Department of Labor’s regulations pertaining to domestic service workers. As background for the IB, CMS states that, “...it is anticipated that many states will determine that, for purposes of [...]

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HHS Releases New Guidance on Implementing Person-centered Planning and Self-direction

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June 6, 2014 | New guidance has been released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services implementing Sec. 2402(a) of the Affordable Care Act, or Removing Barriers to Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS). This provision of the law requires the Health and Human Services secretary to ensure all states develop systems for the delivery [...]

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HCBS Final Rule Website Launches

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May 13, 2014 | The Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD), the National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities and the National Disability Rights Network have launched a new web site to help advocates get involved in their states and improve the implementation of the new Medicaid Final Rule regarding the settings of Home [...]

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What We’re Reading: Dec. 21, 2015

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Kaiser Health News: Baby Boomers Set Another Trend - More Golden Years in Poorer Health After the last of the baby boomers become fully eligible for Medicare, the federal health program can expect significantly higher costs in 2030 both because of the high number of beneficiaries and because many are expected to be significantly less [...]

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What We’re Reading: Nov. 16, 2015

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Administration for Community Living: Remembering Jamie Kendall ACL is mourning the loss of Jamie Kendall, Acting Director of the Independent Living Administration, who died November 12. Jamie was an inspirational leader, brilliant colleague and dear friend, but these words do not begin to really capture who she was, or how many people she touched. In [...]

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