LRB-0990/P1
TJD:kjf
2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Stinebrink, BB0344 - Home care provider registry
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
health and human services
General health and human services
Home care provider registry
This bill requires DHS to conduct a one-year pilot program to create a home care provider registry to support home and community-based long-term care support programs and clients and vendors of care services. DHS is required to use its competitive request-for-proposals procedures to select a vendor of the software platform for the registry.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 9119.
Nonstatutory provisions; Health Services.
(1) Home care provider registry. The department of health services shall conduct a one-year pilot program to create a home care provider registry that supports home and community-based long-term care support programs, clients that pay for home care privately, independent care workers, and vendors of the care service industry. The department of health services shall use a software platform for the registry and shall select a vendor for the software platform using its competitive request-for-proposals procedures.
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