Oregon Developmental Disability Services (ODDS) is transitioning payroll vendors from TNT to PCG Public Partnerships (aka, “Public Partnerships, LLC” or “PPL”). This is also known as the “Financial Management Agent Services” (FMAS), formerly called “Fiscal Intermediary Services” (FI Services).

This transition will affect people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who use self-directed services. These individuals, or the person who employs Personal Support Workers (PSWs) on their behalf, will need to get enrolled with PPL in order to avoid any disruption in paying their PSWs. All PSWs will also need to enroll with PPL in order to continue to be paid for the services they provide.

To make this transition as seamless as possible, there will be a number of in-person information sessions held across the state, as well as live and recorded webinars addressing this change and how it affects certain stakeholder groups.

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Update (1Jan2015): Personal Support Workers (Domestic Employees and/or Independent Contractors providing services defined as Personal Support Work) should refer to the updated TNT PSW Billing Calendar for 2015. Due dates and times may have changed since this news item was originally posted, due to requirements imposed by TNT and/or DHS.

As many of you are well aware, there are considerable changes being made to the DD system (at the State, CDDP & Brokerage levels), at present.

One such change includes where & how Plan of Care is being tracked and when & how Service Providers are being paid.

The State has hoped to get all Plan of Care information into their eXPRS data system by July 1, 2014. That implementation date was tabled, due to the fact of what can best be described as ‘growing pains’ (certain Provider information was not yet in the system, the system itself was not yet ‘production-ready,’ etc.).

The State has instead decided to ‘phase in’ the new eXPRS data system in stages. This means that certain providers will be billing directly in eXPRS, while others will still be submitting invoices and timesheets in a manner similar to how they always have, for the time being.

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The Oregon Home Care Commission (OHCC) has posted the latest Training Newsletter for June to its Training page. Home Care Workers and/or Personal Support Workers (PSWs) are encouraged to take a look…

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