California Administrative Code

(a) Each vendor shall assign staff to carry out the duties described. The vendor is authorized to designate positions be different titles than those listed but is responsible for assuring the functions described are carried out. Staff who are hired by the vendor to carry out the …

(a) The vendor shall maintain a staff-to-consumer ratio of 1:1 during its direct service hours. (b) When a respite service is provided to more than one consumer at the same time and location, regional centers may allow a staff-to-consumer ratio other than 1:1 only if the modifica…

(a) A vendor may develop and implement a written staff training plan for new employee orientation and ongoing employee staff training. (b) If a training plan is developed pursuant to (a) above, it shall at a minimum: (1) Describe the amount, type, subject, and frequency of traini…

(a) A vendor shall develop the following records and maintain them at its business office: (1) Service design as required in Section 56780(a) of these regulations and changes made to the service design; (2) Employee time sheets specifying each employee's work hours; (3) Employee …

(a) Rate increase funds received pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.4 (a) or (b) shall be used only for the following purposes: (1) Increasing direct care staff salaries, wages and benefits. (2) Reducing turnover of direct care staff and improving the overall …

Each licensee of a Service Level 2, 3, or 4 facility who receives rate increase funds authorized by Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.4 (a) or (b) for the purposes specified in Section 56932 shall provide to the regional center verification of the use of any rate increas…

(a) Each licensee who receives rate increase funds authorized by Welfare and Institutions Code Section 4681.4(a) during the 1999 calendar year shall report in writing the use of those rate increase funds to the regional center. (b) Each licensee who receives rate increase funds a…

(a) For Fiscal Year 1997-98, and each alternate fiscal year thereafter, new vendors requesting a rate shall receive a temporary payment rate established pursuant to sections 57520 and 57522, using the program information specified in section 57433 submitted by each new vendor by …

(a) For vendors receiving a permanent payment rate, the Department shall, upon receipt of the information which complies with Sections 57422, and 57433 through 57439, and by September 1, of each year, establish or reestablish the permanent payment rate and notify, in writing, eac…

(a) For vendors requesting a temporary payment rate, the Department shall within 30 days from receipt of program information that complies with section 57433, establish a temporary payment rate and notify, in writing, each vendor, the vendoring regional center, and utilizing regi…

(a) For vendors with a permanent payment rate whose amount computed in step two, section 57511(a)(1), is below the upper limit of the allowable range of rates computed in section 57513 the Department shall: (1) For each vendor, calculate the difference between step two, section 5…

(a) Each in-home respite services agency vendor shall submit the service, cost and vendor income information specified in Sections 58033 through 58038, and as applicable, the regional center payment information specified in Section 58039, on Form DS1897B, dated 12/92, entitled In…

(a) A vendor may appeal the following to the Department's Deputy Director who has the responsibility for setting rates: (1) Errors in program and/or cost and/or vendor income and/or, as applicable, regional center payment information submitted by the vendor which was utilized by …

(a) The appellant may appeal the Deputy Director's decision to the Director within 15 days after receipt of the written decision. The appeal shall be in writing and shall include the following: (1) All information submitted to the Deputy Director pursuant to section 57941(a); (2)…

The effective date of the decision rendered pursuant to Sections 57941 and 57942 shall be stated in the decision. The effective date shall be the date the Department received the appeal pursuant to Section 57940 or the date the costs are incurred, whichever is later.

(a) In order for the Department to establish a temporary payment rate or permanent payment rate, the vendor shall submit the following service information: (1) Vendor name, and name of the management organization, if any, vendor identification number, service code and subcode; (2…

(a) In order for the Department to establish a permanent payment rate, the vendor shall submit information for the following allowable costs if they are incurred by the vendor and are necessary for the vendored service. (1) Total gross salary and wages including overtime for the …

(a) The methodology for computing permanent payment rates is based on service, cost, vendor income, and as applicable, regional center payment information submitted by all vendors receiving permanent payment rates. The Department shall use each vendor's service, cost, vendor inco…

(a) In order for the Department to establish a permanent payment rate for vendors whose temporary payment rate is being converted to a permanent payment rate, or for vendors whose permanent payment rate is being established, each vendor who agreed, pursuant to Section 57300(d) or…

(a) Department review procedures are as follows: (1) For vendors whose temporary payment rates are being converted to permanent payment rates, and for vendors whose permanent payment rate is being established, the Department shall: (A) Within five days from receipt of the informa…

(a) Step two in the process of determining a permanent payment rate is to compute an amount for each vendor within the group of like programs, based on allowable costs and direct service hours. For each vendor, the Department shall compute an amount by: (1) Determining the total …

(a) Step eight in the process of determining a permanent payment rate is to adjust the amount computed in step seven, section 58117, if applicable, for the following that will occur in the fiscal year for which the permanent payment rate is established: (1) COLA authorized in the…

(a) For each fiscal year in which a COLA is granted in the Budget Act, the Department shall increase the mean, computed in step three, section 58112, and upper and lower limits of the existing allowable range of rates, computed in step four, section 58113, by the percentage of th…

(a) The methodology for computing temporary payment rates is based on service, cost, vendor income, and as applicable, regional center payment information submitted by all vendors receiving permanent payment rates. The Department shall use each vendor's service information to est…

(a) Once a payment rate for each in-home respite services agency vendor has been established by the Department, adjustments to that rate shall be considered by the Department, for either anticipated or unanticipated changes, in accordance with (b) and (c). (b) Anticipated changes…

(a) A vendor may appeal the following to the Department's Deputy Director who has the responsibility for setting rates: (1) Errors in service and/or cost and/or vendor income and/or, as applicable, regional center payment information submitted by the vendor which was utilized by …

(a) The appeal filed pursuant to section 58440 shall be in writing and shall include the following: (1) Vendor service information specified in section 58033 (a)(1) through (4); (2) Identification of the rate error or effective date being appealed; (3) The specific basis of the a…

(a) The appellant may appeal the Deputy Director's decision to the Director within 15 days after receipt of the written decision. The appeal shall be in writing and shall include the following: (1) All information submitted to the Deputy Director pursuant to section 58441(a); (2)…

(a) For the purposes of sections 58440 through 58444, good cause for a failure to act is limited to: (1) A violent act of nature, including, but not limited to, flood, earthquake, blizzard or fire; and/or (2) Arson, vandalism, and/or theft of records and/or property, by individua…

Words shall have their usual meaning unless the context or a definition clearly indicates a different meaning. Words used in their present tense include the future tense. Words used in the singular form include the plural form. Use of the word “shall” denotes mandatory conduct an…

(a) The following definitions shall apply to the regulations contained in this subchapter: (1) “Basis for Payment” means the method used to calculate and determine the rate of payment; (2) “Bid” means all the documents submitted by the bidder to the regional center in response to…

(a) The regional center shall purchase transportation service only when: (1) The transportation service is included in the consumer's IPP; (2) The vendor has a rate approved by the Department or the regional center; (3) Provision of the transportation service is not the responsib…

(a) The regional center shall retain, for three years after the termination of each contract for transportation service, a copy of the following documentation, as applicable: (1) The executed contract, if a written contract is required; (2) The RFP; (3) Each opened bid; (4) Docum…

(a) The vendor shall comply with Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Sections 54310 through 54390, prior to the regional center purchase of transportation service from the vendor. (b) The vendor shall not charge regional centers more for providing transportation service to …

(a) The following vendors shall meet the applicable standards in subsectors (b), (c) and (d) below: (1) Transportation Companies--Service Code 875, pursuant to Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 54342(a)(82); (2) Transportation--Additional Component--Service Code 8…

(a) A consumer shall have the right to qualify for SLS vendorization and to serve as his/her own SLS vendor. (b) No relative or conservator of a consumer shall serve as the SLS vendor for that consumer except when a determination has been made through the IPP process that: (1) Un…

(a) The following vendors shall retain the records specified in (b) below: (1) Transportation Companies--Service Code 875, pursuant to Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 54342(a)(82); (2) Transportation--Additional Component--Service Code 880, pursuant to Title 17,…

(a) A contract for transportation service between a regional center and a vendor shall be in writing, except as provided in subsection (b) below, and shall not exceed five years including all amendments. (b) The following shall not require written contracts: (1) Temporary transpo…

(a) Entities that are vendored, or meet the requirements for the following types of vendors, shall be eligible to submit a bid through the competitive procurement process: (1) Transportation Companies--Service Code 875, pursuant to Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Sectio…

(a) The regional center's RFP evaluation committee shall complete the following in the sequence indicated: (1) Review all bids to determine which bids, if any, meet the format and bid submission requirements specified in the RFP; (2) Review each bid which meets the format and bid…

(a) Transportation Assistant - Service Code 882, as described in Title 17, California Code of Regulations, Section 54342(a)(79), shall be paid a rate in accordance with the vendor's usual and customary rate. (b) Transportation - Medical - Service Code 885, as described in Title 1…

(a) A regional center may enter into a contract for the provision of transportation service in which the rate of payment, including the rate for transportation aide services, if any, is based upon a Standard Rate Schedule (SRS). The regional center may enter into such contracts o…

(a) The vendor shall submit the following information to the regional center on the Form DS2 (7/91), entitled Transportation Cost Statement: (1) Vendor name; (2) Business telephone number; (3) Vendor identification number; (4) Service code and subcode; (5) Business and mailing ad…

(a) The vendor shall submit the following information for the projected allowable costs for a 12 month period to the regional center on the Form DS2 (7/91), entitled Transportation Cost Statement, if the costs will be incurred by the vendor and are necessary for the provision of …

(a) A rate of payment based on a cost statement is computed using the following: (1) Step One in the process is to compute a total amount for annual projected allowable costs by adding together the costs identified in Section 58552 which were reported by the vendor Form DS2 (7/91…

(a) When the regional center requires a transportation service vendor to employ a transportation aide, the rate of payment for transportation aide service shall be limited to the following hourly expenses as reported on the Form DS2 (7/91), entitled Transportation Cost Statement:…

(a) The contract shall be subject to termination under any of the following conditions: (1) For cause by the regional center, with notice, pursuant to Title 17, Section 50611(b); (2) For cause by the regional center, with or without notice, when the regional center determines tha…

(a) As used in this Subchapter, the following terms shall have the meanings specified in Title 17, Section 50602: (1) Service Provider, (b) As used in this Subchapter, the following terms shall have the meanings specified in Title 17, Section 54302 (1) Accreditation; (2) CARF; (3…

(a) For Fiscal Year 2006-07, and each alternate fiscal year thereafter, rates are based on the costs for the vendor's fiscal year of two (2) years prior. (b) To aid in the vendors' preparation and the Department's desk audit and the Department's and/or regional center's field aud…

§ 450.16. Change of Business or Corporate Name. [Renumbered] This database is current through 5/1/26 Register 2026, No. 18. Source: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I67CA42735A1E11EC8227000D3A7C4BC3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=Category…