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Providers back measure to limit duplicate reviews; lawmakers raise safety questions
Summary
House Bill 2230 would limit DSHS to one annual routine review per community residential service provider in specified subject areas and require divisions to combine overlapping reviews; providers described duplicate, time-consuming audits and welcomed streamlining but members pressed on safety and random inspections.
House Bill 2230, heard in committee Tuesday, would require the Department of Social and Health Services to limit routine reviews of community residential service business providers to one annual review in specified subject areas (client finances, service plans, federal compliance, community integration, provider finances and general quality assurance) and to combine review activities where possible.
Omera Harrington, committee counsel, said the limitation would not…
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