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Information about Division of Quality Assurance (DQA)

DQA Web Pages Information

Provider Types Regulated by DQA

DQA Listservs

Consumer Information

DQA Facility Directories

DQA Provider Training

DQA Numbered Memos

DHS Forms

Construction/
Remodeling of Health Care Facilities

WI Nurse Aide Training and Registry Info

Caregiver Program/ Background Checks

WI Adult Programs Caregiver Misconduct Registry

Home Health Agencies (HHAs)
Medicare Certification Materials

For questions regarding these materials, you may E-mail the 
Division of Quality Assurance

For a home health agency to be certified for Medicare and Medicaid billing, it must first secure its Wisconsin license to operate. Please see Wisconsin Licensing Information to Operate a Home Health Agency (exit DHS)

Wisconsin Medicaid provider certification packets - Forward Health

For federal Medicare certification requirements, review the following:

• Code of Federal Regulations
  Conditions of Participation, Home Health Agencies (exit DHS)
  
  

• CMS State Operations Manual (exit DHS)

  • Chapter 2 (exit DHS; PDF) - Go to section 2202, page 157 OASIS Requirements

    • OASIS - HHAs seeking Initial Certification should review 2202.10 A thru F

  • Appendix B - Guidance to Surveyors: Home Health Agencies (exit DHS; PDF)
    
    

• Forms - Complete and send to: Home Health Licensing Specialist, Bureau of Technology, Licensing & Education, Division of Quality Assurance, P.O. Box 2969, Madison, WI 53701-2969.
  Do NOT send anywhere else.

  • Home Health Agency Survey and Deficiencies Report (CMS-1572) (exit DHS; PDF, 50 KB)

  • Health Insurance Benefit Agreement (CMS-1561) (exit DHS; PDF)

  • Expression of Intermediary Preference (PDF, 12 KB)

  • Medicare Certification Civil Rights Information Request Form (exit DHS; Word) - Please review carefully and fill out and submit all requested items
    
    

• OASIS Information

   

• Licensed Home Health Agencies seeking Medicare and Medicaid certification should in particular review the OASIS Regulations, the OASIS User's Manual , and CMS Memorandum S&C- 01-02 Application of OASIS to Medicare Beneficiaries
  
  

• CMS Survey & Certification Letters - ongoing federal updates for Home Health Agencies including OASIS information
  
  

• OASIS Transmission Guidance for Newly Licensed Home Health Agencies Applying for Medicare Certification (PDF, 21 KB)
  
  

• AT&T Global Network Client Software and Installation Instructions available on the QIES Tech Support Office Website  (exit DHS)

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Last Updated: October 23, 2009