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Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
12.08-1
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
Effective January 1, 2020, every provider of Personal
						Care Services must comply with the Maine DHHS Electronic Visit Verification
						("EVV") system for standards and requirements. In compliance with Section 12006
						of the 21st Century CURES Act (
						P.L.
						114-225 ), as codified in
						42 U.S.C. §
													1396b(l)(1), visits
						conducted as part of such services must be electronically verified with respect
						to: type of the service performed; the individual receiving the service; the
						date of the service; the location of the service; and the time the service
						begins and ends. Providers may utilize the Maine DHHS EVV system at no cost, or
						may procure and utilize their own system, so long as data from the provider
						owned system can be accepted and integrated with the Maine DHHS EVV system and
						is otherwise compatible.
12.08-2
Professional and Other
					 Qualified Staff
The following professionals are qualified professional
						staff:
A. Eligibility Determination
					 staff employed by the ASA or the Department must be a registered nurse licensed
					 to practice nursing in the State of Maine.
B. Care Coordination Agency staff providing
					 services under this section shall meet the following qualifications:
1. A registered nurse licensed to practice
					 nursing in the State of Maine;
2. A
					 Registered Occupational Therapist who is licensed to practice occupational
					 therapy in the State of Maine; or
3. A Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant
					 who is licensed to practice occupational therapy in the State of Maine, under
					 the documented supervision of a licensed occupational therapist; or
4. A Licensed social service or health
					 professional; or
5. An individual
					 who has had four years of education in the health or social services field and
					 one year of community experience.
C.
Attendant
An attendant must be at least seventeen (17) years old
						and have the ability to assist with Activities of Daily Living. An attendant
						cannot be an individual who has a notation on the Maine Registry of Certified
						Nursing Assistants of (a) any criminal convictions, except for Class D and
						Class E convictions over ten (10) years old that did not involve as a victim of
						the act, a patient, client, or resident of a health care entity; or (b) any
						specific documented findings by the State Survey Agency of abuse, neglect or
						misappropriation of property of a resident, client or patient.
After the completion of consumer instruction, the member
						shall train the attendant on the job. Within a twenty-one (21) day probation
						period, the member will determine the competency of the attendant on the job.
						At a minimum, based upon the attendant's job performance, the member will
						certify competence in the following areas:
- ability to follow oral or signed and written
						instructions and carry out tasks as directed by the member;
- disability awareness;
- use of adaptive and mobility equipment;
- transfers and mobility; and
- ability to assist with health maintenance
						activities.
Satisfactory performance in the areas above will result
						in a statement of competency for each attendant. This statement must be signed
						by the member, submitted to the Service Coordination Agency, and a copy kept in
						the member's record.