SECTION 262.921. Including On-Site, Off-Site, and In-Home Individualized Skills and Socialization on an IPC

(a) If an applicant wants to receive on-site or off-site individualized skills and socialization, or wants to receive and meets the criteria for in-home individualized skills and socialization:

(1) a service coordinator must include the type of individualized skills and socialization on the applicant's PDP and the type and amount of individualized skills and socialization on the initial IPC in accordance with the rules governing the TxHmL Program; and

(2) a program provider must develop an implementation plan for on-site, off-site, and in-home individualized skills and socialization.

(b) To renew or revise an IPC to include on-site, off-site, or in-home individualized skills and socialization, a service coordinator and program provider must comply with rules governing the TxHmL Program, which include developing an implementation plan that describes on-site, off-site, and in-home individualized skills and socialization.

(c) If an individual or the individual's LAR wants the individual to receive on-site or off-site individualized skills and socialization, but not both, the service coordinator must document the decision in the individual's PDP.

(d) A service coordinator must ensure that an initial IPC that is effective on or after March 1, 2023, does not include day habilitation.

(e) A service coordinator must ensure that a renewal IPC that is effective on or after March 1, 2023, does not include day habilitation.

(f) A program provider or service coordinator must ensure that a revised IPC with an effective date that is during the period of March 1, 2023, through February 29, 2024, includes only the amount of day habilitation that the program provider provided to the individual before March 1, 2023.

Source Note: The provisions of this §262.921 adopted to be effective January 1, 2023, 47 TexReg 8688