New Statewide Transition Plan available for public comment

Please find this important message from the Georgia Department of Community Health in partnership with the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities:

PUBLIC NOTICE -- Home and Community-Based Waiver Services Statewide Transition Plan

The Georgia Department of Community Health provides public notice related to the state’s plan to comply with new regulation governing the settings in which services to Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver recipients may be provided.

The HCBS Transition Plan explains the steps the state has taken and will take to come into compliance with the Settings Rule Regulation. The Rule provides definitions and characteristics of HCBS (e.g. HCBS are community-integrated) and the state’s responsibility is to explain how it will assure and validate that HCBS waiver services are being provided in a manner that matches the definitions and characteristics.

The public may comment in writing on or before September 9, 2016 using one of the following methods: