7 AAC 43.786. Consumer-directed program; personal care agencies

(a) A consumer-directed personal care agency shall, in addition to meeting the requirements under 7 AAC 43.750 - 7 AAC 43.795, review a recipient's needs semiannually in the recipient's home. If the recipient resides in a community not accessible by road or air service, a consumer-directed personal care agency shall arrange for telephone, radio, or, if feasible, in-person contact with the recipient and the personal care assistant to the extent allowed by the recipient's PCAT service plan and the condition of the recipient, and request that the department waive the residence visitation requirements of this section if necessary. If the semiannual in-person visitation is waived, an in-person visitation must occur annually.

(b) As an employer, an agency shall collect and verify consumer-directed personal care assistants' time sheets and submit claims to the department. Individual personal care assistants employed by an agency are not responsible for submitting their own claims.

(c) Before the agency submits the application materials required under 7 AAC 43.793, the administrator of a personal care agency in the consumer-directed program shall attend a department orientation.

(d) A newly employed administrator of an existing consumer-directed program shall attend a department orientation within six months after the date of hire by the personal care agency, if the department does not have documentation that any other current employee of the personal care agency has attended a mandatory department orientation.

(e) A recipient who, because of lack of capacity under 7 AAC 43.768(a) , has been terminated from the consumer-directed program by the consumer-directed agency that has been providing services to the recipient is eligible to transfer to, and to receive personal care services through, an approved personal care agency in the agency-based program. Except as provided in 7 AAC 43.789, and at least 30 days before the date of termination, the agency terminating services to a recipient shall give the recipient written notice of the termination and of the recipient's eligibility to apply to the department for inclusion in the agency-based program.

History: Eff. 10/1/2001, Register 159; am 6/19/2004, Register 170; am 4/1/2006, Register 177

Authority: AS 47.05.010

AS 47.07.030

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