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Date: May 19, 2020
To: Lead agency staff and customized living providers
From: DHS Aging and Adult Services and Disability Services divisions
Purpose: To announce a bulletin about customized living rate add-on payments for settings with confirmed cases of COVID-19
Effective: Immediately
Contact: dhs.aasd.hcbs@state.mn.us
DHS recently published Bulletin #20-25-02: Customized living rate add-on payments for settings with confirmed cases of COVID-19 (PDF).
The bulletin provides information about a temporary rate add-on for customized living services delivered to people who meet both of the following criteria:
- Use the Brain Injury (BI) Waiver, Community Access for Disability Inclusion (CADI) Waiver or Elderly Waiver (EW)
- Live in a setting that the Minnesota Department of Health has determined to have at least one case of COVID-19.
How can I stay updated on COVID-19 related issues?
- For information and resources for people with disabilities, their families and caregivers, visit the Disability Hub MN website.
- For information and resources for older adults, their families and caregivers, call the Senior LinkAge Line at 800-333-2433.
- For updates related to disability services, visit the Latest information about COVID-19 from DSD page.
- For updates related to aging programs, visit the Latest information about COVID-19 from AASD page.
- The Community-Based Services Manual (CBSM) is our primary way to communicate DHS and DSD policy to providers and lead agencies. We are updating the CBSM homepage and appending notes to policy pages affected by temporary waiver and policy changes.
- The Temporary waivers and program modifications page is a complete list of emergency temporary changes to administrative and regulatory requirements for food assistance, home care, public health care and other state programs in response to the pandemic.
- We are using official DHS bulletins to share operational guidance for many of these modifications.
- For agencywide COVID-related updates to DHS programs, visit the DHS homepage.
- The Coronavirus Disease in Minnesota website contains the latest statewide information related to the pandemic.
- For updates, information and resources for providers, visit the Minnesota Department of Health Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) website. The MDH website includes guidance for MDH- and DHS-licensed residential and non-residential settings.
Stay up-to-date by email
Visit CBSM – What's new often for a list of policies/pages we've recently updated
in the Community-Based Services Manual.
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