HCBS Settings Compliance

Compliance with the new HCBS Settings Rule is a crucial part of how people with I/DD will be served in our state for years to come. This new regulation is somewhat complex. Here is some information that might be helpful for understanding what will take place as Georgia and its providers work to comply with this new rule:

 

• Click here for a broad, FAQ-style overview of what this new federal regulation means for states and providers.

• Click here for a fact sheet that gives an overview of important provisions of the new rule.

• Click here for information on the requirements for home and community based settings.

• Click here for a chart on how settings’ compliance with the new rule will be determined.

• Click here to learn about the transition plans that states must make to comply with the new rule.

• Click here to learn about settings that are presumed not to comply with the new rule because they  isolate people with disabilities.

• Click here for information on building and modifying those settings.

• Settings that look like institutions may not always really be institutions, and the new rule takes that into account. Click here for a chart on how that will work.