Library: Policy

317:30-5-761. Eligible providers

Revised 9-12-22

ADvantage Program ADvantage Administration (AA) certifies ADvantage Program service providers, except pharmacy providers, and they have a current signed SoonerCare (Medicaid) contract on file with the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA), the State Medicaid agency.

(1) The provider programmatic-certification process verifies the provider meets licensure, certification, and training standards as specified in the waiver document. All providers, except nursing facility (NF) respite; medical equipment and supplies; and environmental modification providers, must obtain programmatic-certification to be ADvantage program certified.

(2) The provider financial-certification verifies the provider uses sound business management practices and has a financially-stable business. All providers, except for NF respite; medical equipment and supplies; and environmental modification providers, will obtain financial certification to be ADvantage program certified.

(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 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 CD-PASS 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; and

(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.

(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; and

(iv) The person-centered service plan as the member's care provider.

(D) In addition to case management, monitoring, and reporting activities required for all waiver services, the State is obligated to additional monitoring requirements when members elect to use a spouse or legal guardian as a paid service provider. The AA monitors, through quarterly documentation the case manager submits, the continued appropriateness of the policy exception that allows the spouse or legal guardian to serve as the member's paid caregiver.

(8) Durable medical equipment and supplies providers comply with Oklahoma Administrative Code 317:30-5-210(2) regarding delivery proof for items shipped to the member's residence.

(9) OKDHS CAP periodically performs a programmatic audit of:

(A) Adult day health;

(B) Assisted living;

(D) Home care:

(i) Skilled nursing;

(ii) Personal care;

(iii) In-home respite; and

(iv) Advanced supportive or restorative assistance; and

(v) Therapy services; and

(E) CD-PASS providers.

(10) When, due to a programmatic audit, a provider plan of correction (POC) is required, the AA may stop new cases and referrals to the provider 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.