Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 12-9.1-2-3; IC 12-10.5-2-2
Affected: IC 12-10
Sec. 4.
(a) DDARS
shall monitor compliance with the requirements of this article as follows:
(1) As stated in the current executed
contract or provider agreement.
(2)
Upon receiving a complaint or report alleging a provider's noncompliance with
the requirements of this article.
(3) As frequently as deemed necessary by
DDARS.
(4) According to DDARS
approved policy.
(b)
DDARS shall monitor compliance with the requirements of this article through
any of the following means:
(1) Requesting and
obtaining information from the provider.
(2) On-site inspections.
(3) Meeting with an individual or the
individual's legal representative as applicable.
(4) Reviewing provider records and the
records of an individual.
(5)
Follow-up inspections completed, as frequently as deemed necessary by the
director of DDARS, to determine compliance after DDARS has required a
corrective action plan.
(c) The provider will submit to DDARS any
requested documentation within ten (10) days from the date that the provider
receives the report of findings unless otherwise specified.
(d) As follows, after an on-site inspection,
DDARS shall issue a written report, which shall:
(1) Be prepared by DDARS.
(2) Document the findings made during
monitoring.
(3) Identify necessary
corrective action.
(4) Give the
provider ten (10) days in which to complete the corrective action plan unless
otherwise specified.
(5) Identify
documentation needed from the provider to support the provider's completion of
the corrective action plan.
(6) Be
submitted to the provider.
(e) A provider shall do the following:
(1) If requested, complete a corrective
action plan to the reasonable satisfaction of DDARS within:
(A) the time period identified in the
corrective action plan; or
(B)
another time period agreed upon by DDARS.
(2) Notify DDARS upon the completion of a
corrective action plan.
(3) Provide
DDARS with all requested documentation.
(f) If a person other than an individual
receiving service files a complaint, DDARS shall notify the person filing the
complaint of completion of the following:
(1)
DDARS monitoring as a result of the complaint.
(2) Any corrective action by the provider as
a result of DDARS monitoring.
Transferred from the Division of Disability and
Rehabilitative Services ( 460 IAC 1.2-6-4) to the Division of Aging ( 455 IAC
2-6-4) by P.L. 153-2011, SECTION 21, effective July 1,
2011.
