NCI Performance Indicators: Evidence for New HCBS Requirements and Revised HCBS Assurances
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) collaborates with states to manage, maintain and improve the quality of long term services and supports (LTSS). Most recently, CMS issued new (effective March 2014) HCBS quality requirements for HCBS settings and person centered service planning. In addition, CMS revised the HCBS Quality Assurance and Sub-Assurance which also became operative in March 2014.
To assist states with required reporting to CMS on compliance with the New HCBS requirements and revised Assurances, NCI staff have created a crosswalk aligning both the new HCBS quality requirements regarding settings and person centered service planning and the revised HCBS HCBS Quality Assurance and Sub-Assurances with the indicators collected by the National Core Indicators surveys. The crosswalk is available here.
The crosswalk, entitled “NCI Performance Indicators: Evidence for New HCBS Requirements and Revised HCBS Assurances” states each of the new HCBS Requirements and then lists the NCI questions that will collect data that will be useful to provide evidence for each requirement.
We anticipate that this crosswalk can provide invaluable information to NCI states working to develop their evidence plans. Please contact us with any questions. dhiersteiner@hsri.org