OHCA Policies and Rules
317:30-5-761. Eligible providers
[Revised 09-01-24]
The ADvantage Administration (AA) certifies ADvantage Program service providers, except pharmacy providers. Providers must have a current signed SoonerCare (Medicaid) contract on file with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), the State Medicaid agency.
(1) The provider certification process verifies the provider meets licensure, certification, and training standards, and uses sound business management practices and has a financially stable business, as specified in the waiver document. All providers, except nursing facility (NF) respite; medical equipment and supplies; and environmental modification providers, must meet certification requirements to be ADvantage program certified.
(2) NF respite, medical equipment and supplies, and environmental modification providers will verify the provider meets licensure and certification standards as applicable.
(3) At minimum, provider financial certification is re-evaluated annually.
(4) Providers may fail to gain or may lose ADvantage program certification due to failure to meet programmatic or financial standards.
(5) All provider service types must agree to and sign the Conditions of Provider Participation and Service Standards.
(6) The Oklahoma Human Services (OKDHS) Community Living, Aging and Protective Services (CAP) does not authorize the member's CDPASS services provider to also have an active power of attorney for the member.
(7) OKDHS CAP may authorize a member's legally-responsible spouse or legal guardian to be SoonerCare (Medicaid) reimbursed, per 1915(c) ADvantage Program as a personal care, service provider. Authorization for a spouse or legal guardian as a provider requires the criteria in (A) through (D) of this paragraph and monitoring provisions to be met.
(A) Authorization for a spouse or legal guardian to be a member's care provider may occur only when the member is offered provider choice and documentation demonstrates:
(i) No provider included on the Certified Agency Report (CAR) or in the member's service area, has available staffing. Documentation also affirms all area providers attempt to employ staff to serve; or
(ii) The member's needs are so complex that unless the spouse or legal guardian provides the care, the member's risk level would increase; or
(iii) It is mentally or physically detrimental for someone other than the spouse or legal guardian to provide care. This is evidenced by documentation from a qualified clinician or medical provider, such as a physician or licensed psychologist.
(B) The service:
(i) Meets service or support definition as outlined in the federally-approved waiver document;
(ii) Is necessary to avoid institutionalization;
(iii) Is a service or support specified in the person-centered service plan;
(iv) Is provided by a person who meets the provider qualifications and training standards specified in the waiver for that service;
(v) Is paid at a rate that does not exceed what is paid to a provider of a similar service and does not exceed what OHCA allows for personal care or personal assistance services payment; and
(vi) Is not an activity the spouse or legal guardian would ordinarily perform or is responsible to perform.
(C) The spouse or legal guardian service provider complies with:
(i) Providing no more than forty (40) service hours of services in a seven (7) day period;
(ii) Planned work schedules that are available in advance for the member's case manager, and variations to the schedule are noted and supplied to the case manager two (2) weeks in advance unless the change is due to an emergency;
(iii) Maintaining and submitting time sheets and other required documentation for hours paid;
(iv) The person-centered service plan as the member's care provider; and
(v) Continuing non-reimbursed family responsibilities of primary caregiver and emergency backup caregiver.
(D) In addition to case management, monitoring, and reporting activities required for all waiver services, when members elect to use a spouse or legal guardian as a paid service provider, the case manager must visit the member at least monthly to monitor the continued appropriateness of the policy exception that allows the spouse or legal guardian to serve as the member's paid caregiver, and document findings in the member’s electronic record.
(8) OKDHS CAP periodically performs a provider audit of:
(A) Adult day health;
(B) Assisted living;
(C) Case Management;
(D) Home care:
(i) Skilled nursing;
(ii) Personal care;
(iii) In-home respite;
(iv) Advanced supportive or restorative assistance; and
(v) Therapy services; and
(E) CDPASS providers.
(9) When, due to a provider audit, a provider plan of correction (POC) is required, the AA may stop new cases and referrals to the provider, by removing from the CAR, until the POC is approved, implemented, and a follow-up review occurs. Depending on the nature and severity of problems discovered during a programmatic audit (and at OKDHS CAP discretion), members determined to be at risk for health or safety may be transferred from a provider requiring a POC to another provider.
Disclaimer. The OHCA rules found on this Web site are unofficial. The official rules are published by the Oklahoma Secretary of State Office of Administrative Rules as Title 317 of the Oklahoma Administrative Code. To order an official copy of these rules, contact the Office of Administrative Rules at (405) 521-4911.
