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Units

• Adult Protective Services Unit
• IDD Waiver Unit
• NFLOC Waiver Unit
• Grant Services Unit
• Personal Care Assistant Unit
• Policy and Program Development Unit
• Quality Assurance Unit
• Research and Analysis Unit
• Operations and Training Unit

Of Interest

• SDS Policies
• Provider Resources and Forms
• Provider Certification Information
• Reports & Publications
• Alaska Waiver Programs
• Medicare Information Office
• Nursing Facility
  Transition Program
• Rural Long-Term Care Development
• Skilled Nursing Facilities
• Aging and Disability Resource Centers

CMS Review

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Focused Review of Senior and Disabilities Services Medicaid waiver and Personal Care Assistance programs

• About the CMS review

QA Reports

These documents contain the division’s first Quality Assurance Report on the SDS Performance Measures to CMS. This report will be submitted monthly until such time as CMS determines less frequent reporting is necessary. Additional refinements will be made to the reports in subsequent submissions.

• Quality Assurance Report
• Adults with Physical Disabilities
• Children witrh Complex Medical Conditions
• Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• Older Alaskans

CMS Review Correspondence

• CMS Letter — 8/28/09
• CMS Letter — 8/27/09
• CMS Letter — 8/21/09
• CMS Letter — 8/6/09
• CMS Letter — 7/31/09
• DHSS Response — 7/13/09
• CMS Preliminary Review — 6/26/09

General Information

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Fact Sheet

Resource & Referral Agencies

• Home & Community-Based Services Resources — Updated 8/6/2009
• Resource websites

Provider Information

• Updated Information on Temporary Moratorium — 8/7/09
• Provider & Family Suggestion Sessions
• Suggestion Sessions Summary
• CMS Provider E-Alerts
• Program Memo to Providers

Press Releases

• Moratorium lifted from Alaska's Medicaid waiver programs — 8/28/09
• Emergency Exemptions OK’d for Federal Moratorium on Medicaid WaiversEmergency Exemptions OKd for Federal Moratorium on Medicaid Waivers 8/21/2009
• Federal moratorium on Personal Care Assistance applications lifted — 8/7/09
• State Senior and Disabilities Services takes steps to end federal moratorium on some Medicaid services — 7/29/09
• SDS works with CMS to improve oversight — 7/13/09
• SDS responds to federal review — 7/1/09

Resources

• Where To Turn (Information & Referral Database) 
• Alaska Pioneer Homes 
• Division of Behavioral Health
• Early Intervention/Infant Learning Programs
• Office of Children’s Services
• Division of Public Assistance
• Senior Grant Providers
• DD Grantee Provider List
• DSDS Grants Unit Brochure
• Use the link to the right For
  Aging and Disabilites Resource Centers: Information and Assistance about Community-Based Services and Supports for Any Age
• Senior Benefits Program