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IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties

IdahoregulationIdaho Department of Health and Welfare· effective 2022-03-17

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The PAA must assign qualified personal assistants to eligible participants after consultation with and approval by the participants (306.02.e).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 2The PAA must maintain liability insurance coverage; termination of worker's compensation or professional liability insurance is cause for termination of the provider agreement (306.02.c).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 3The PAA is responsible for recruitment, hiring, firing, training, supervision, scheduling, and payroll for personal assistants, and for assuring all providers are qualified to provide quality service (306.02.a).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 4The PAA must participate in providing worker's compensation, unemployment compensation, and all other state and federal tax withholdings (306.02.b).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 5A Personal Assistance Agency must sign the Medicaid Provider General Agreement and the Additional Terms-Personal Assistance Agencies, Aged and Disabled Waiver Provider Agreement, comply with all agreement conditions, and direct, control, and monitor the work of each of its personal assistants (306.01).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 6The PAA must conduct, at least annually, participant satisfaction or quality control reviews available to the Department and the general public (306.02.i).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 7The PAA must assure that all personal assistants meet the qualifications in Subsection 305.01 of these rules (306.02.f).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)
  • 8The PAA must provide a licensed RN or, where applicable, a QIDP supervisor to develop and complete plans of care and provide ongoing supervision of a participant's care (306.02.d).(IDAPA 16.03.10.306 - Personal Assistance Agency (PAA): Qualifications and Duties)

Applies to: personal care

Establishes the provider-agreement requirement and enumerates the operational, supervisory, insurance, hiring, training, and quality-review responsibilities of a Personal Assistance Agency furnishing PCS.

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