26 Tex. Admin. Code § 281.5 - Contracting Requirements for Provider Agencies
(a) A provider agency must comply with
Chapter 49 of this title (relating to Contracting for Community
Services).
(b) A provider agency
and its subcontractors must comply with reporting requirements for the USDA
incentive program.
(1) The reporting
requirements of the USDA incentive program are provided annually through a DADS
memo to contracted agencies.
(2) A
provider agency must maintain documentation of all eligible meals delivered
under the USDA incentive program according to the terms of the
contract.
(3) This subsection does
not apply to Title XIX (Medicaid) funded home-delivered meals
contracts.
(c) A
provider agency that wants to contract with DADS to provide home-delivered
meals must agree to provide services:
(1) for
a specific number of service days, with a minimum of five meals per
week;
(2) within specific
geographic service areas established in the contract;
(3) to all eligible clients in a service area
unless services are suspended or unless the provider agency is unable to
provide a certain therapeutic medical diet; and
(4) for the reimbursement rate that DADS
negotiates with the provider agency on an annual basis. This negotiated rate
must be within the DADS unit rate ceiling then in effect.
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