South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule: South Carolina Statewide Transition Plan – Revised

PUBLIC NOTICE

South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule:

South Carolina Statewide Transition Plan – Revised

The South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (SCDHHS) gives notice that the revised draft Statewide Transition Plan, required per Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Rule (42 CFR 441.301(c)(6)), is available for public review and comment. The revised South Carolina Statewide Transition Plan will be submitted by or on Oct. 28, 2016. It will be effective upon CMS approval.

The following is a summary of the revisions made in the draft Statewide Transition Plan (last submitted March 31, 2016):

Communication and outreach, renumbered section 2

Assessment of system-wide regulations, policies, procedures, licensing standards and other regulations, renumbered section 3

Assessment of settings, renumbered section 4

Heightened Scrutiny, renumbered section 5

South Carolina Home and Community-Based Services Statewide Transition Plan Timeline

Overall revisions 

SCDHHS will hold a live online webinar to discuss the revised Statewide Transition Plan draft for public input.

Date:     Aug. 23, 2016

Time:     Noon (will also be recorded for later viewing)

Link:    http://www.familyconnectionsc.org/training-connection/ (if link does not work, please copy and paste into a new web page)

SCDHHS will also hold nine (9) regional public meetings to discuss the Statewide Transition Plan for public input.  See this schedule, or check our Events page, for the dates and locations of those meetings.  All meetings will be from 6 -7 p.m.

A copy of this notice and the revised draft SC HCBS Statewide Transition Plan is available at:

Additional information concerning the Statewide Transition Plan is available upon request at the address cited below.

Written comments on the Statewide Transition Plan may be sent to:

Long Term Care and Behavioral Health

ATTN:  Kelly Eifert, Ph.D.

South Carolina Department Health and Human Services

P.O. Box 8206

Columbia, South Carolina 29202-8206

Comments may also be submitted to https://msp.scdhhs.gov/hcbs/webform/comments-questions.

All comments must be received by Oct. 7, 2016.