Code of Massachusetts Regulations
130 CMR - DIVISION OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Title 130 CMR 630.000 - Home- and Community-Based Services Waiver services
Section 630.415 - Community Family Training and Residential Family Training

Universal Citation: 130 MA Code of Regs 130.630

Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024

(A) Conditions of Payment . Documentation in the participant's record must demonstrate the benefit of this service to the participant. Community family training and residential family training is not available for individuals who are employed to care for the participant. Family training may be provided in a small group format or the family trainer may provide individual instruction to a specific family based on the family's understanding of the waiver participant's specialized needs. The one-to-one family training is instructional; it is not counseling.

(1) Community Family Training . For purpose of this service, family is defined as the persons who live with or provide unpaid care to a waiver participant and may include a parent or other relative.

(2) Residential Family Training . For purpose of this service, family is defined as the persons who provide unpaid care to a waiver participant and may include a parent or other relative.

(B) Nonpayable Services .

(1) Community Family Training . This service is not available to those participants who do not live in the family home or do not regularly visit with their family.

(2) Residential Family Training . This service is not available in provider-operated residential habilitation or assisted living sites or in shared living settings, unless the participant regularly leaves the site to visit their family.

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