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S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision)

South DakotaregulationSouth Dakota Department of Social Services (Medicaid)

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The provider (home health agency) must meet the requirements of a home health agency under 42 C.F.R. sections 484.1 to 484.115, inclusive (June 19, 2020) - which includes the federal home health aide training and competency-evaluation standards at 42 C.F.R. 484.80. (ARSD 67:16:05:01)(S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision))
  • 2A personal care provider must use SDCL chapter 36-9 to determine when needed covered services must be delivered by a licensed nurse. (ARSD 67:16:24:03)(S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision))
  • 3The provider must ensure home health aide services are prescribed by a licensed physician and provided on an intermittent basis. (ARSD 67:16:05:01)(S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision))
  • 4The provider must ensure that supervisory visits, when home health aide services are being provided, follow the criteria established in 42 C.F.R. 484.80(h) (June 19, 2020). (ARSD 67:16:05:05.03)(S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision))
  • 5For personal care services, the provider must furnish services through an individual who is qualified to provide the services and who is not a member of the recipient's family. (ARSD 67:16:24:01)(S.D. Admin. R. 67:16:05 - Home Health Services (aide qualifications, training, and supervision))

Applies to: home health

South Dakota Medicaid's home health rule (ARSD 67:16:05) does not spell out aide training hours in state text; instead it establishes home health aide requirements by incorporating the federal Conditions of Participation. A participating home health agency must meet 42 C.F.R. §§ 484.1-484.115 (which includes the home health aide training and competency evaluation standards at § 484.80), aide services must be prescribed by a physician and provided intermittently, and supervisory visits during aide service must follow 42 C.F.R. § 484.80(h). South Dakota's separate personal-care-services rule (ARSD 67:16:24) contains no distinct aide-training/competency standard, deferring instead to a general "qualified individual" requirement and to SDCL ch. 36-9 for nurse-delegation determinations.

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