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Personal Care Assistance (PCA waiver and CHCPE, agency-based)

Attendants employed by agencies providing agency-based PCA services; the waiver requires the agency to be a licensed home health agency or a DCP-registered homemaker-companion agency, so that agency type's own checks apply too.

PCA · ON FILE
Registries named
6
Required
4
Expected
2
Screened by ezOIG
3 of 6
Rules checked
October 15, 2026

Required checks

Named by a regulation, a statute or the state's Medicaid agency

  1. List of Excluded Individuals/Entities

    HHS Office of Inspector General

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against the HHS-OIG list
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    DSS Provider Enrollment Agreement ¶ 38 (Connecticut Medical Assistance Program); DSS PCA waiver application Appendix C-2-a (CT.017)

    List of Excluded Individuals/Entities Report and the OIG Web site, to determine whether any potential or current employees, contractors or suppliers have been suspended or excluded or terminated from any healthcare program ... The Provider shall search the HHS-OIG Web site on a monthly basis

    Read the source ctdssmap.com

  2. Quality Assurance Administrative Actions List

    Connecticut Department of Social Services, Office of Quality Assurance

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire and routinely after (no interval set)
    BASIS
    DSS Provider Enrollment Agreement ¶ 38 (Connecticut Medical Assistance Program)

    The Provider shall also routinely search the Administrative Actions List on the DSS website.

    Read the source ctdssmap.com

  3. Connecticut Sex Offender Registry

    Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (State Police)

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before any offer
    BASIS
    Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-670(5)(E) for homemaker-companion agencies; DPH Policy and Procedure No. 15-01 § 6(a) (Conn. L.J., Aug. 18, 2015, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-491c(h)) for home health agencies; PCA waiver Appendix C-1/C-3 allows only these two agency types

    “Comprehensive background check” means a background investigation of a prospective employee performed by a homemaker-companion agency, that includes ... (E) a check of the registry established and maintained pursuant to section 54-257

    Read the source cga.ct.gov

  4. National Sex Offender Public Website

    U.S. Department of Justice

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry's terms forbid automated searches
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before any offer
    BASIS
    Conn. Gen. Stat. § 20-670(5)(F) for homemaker-companion agencies; DPH Policy and Procedure No. 15-01 § 6(a) (Conn. L.J., Aug. 18, 2015, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-491c(h)) for home health agencies

    (F) a local and national criminal background check of criminal matters of public record based on the prospective employee's name and date of birth that includes a search of a multistate and multijurisdiction criminal record locator or other similar commercial nationwide database with validation, and a search of the United States Department of Justice National Sex Offender Public Website

    Read the source cga.ct.gov

Expected checks

Standard practice, or implied by a provider's enrollment duties; no rule names them outright

  1. Criminal/Motor Vehicle Conviction Case Look-up

    Connecticut Judicial Branch

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry's terms forbid automated searches
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before any offer
    BASIS
    Required through ABCMS when the agency is a home health agency (DPH Policy and Procedure No. 15-01 § 6(a) (Conn. L.J., Aug. 18, 2015, under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-491c(h))); for homemaker-companion agencies it is the usual source for the local criminal search § 20-670(5)(F) requires

    The provider agencies are expected to do a background check on all of their prospective employees. Providers are also expected to check the OIG list.

    Read the source portal.ct.gov

  2. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    Standard practice for Connecticut Medicaid providers; no Connecticut rule names SAM.gov

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Background check on all prospective agency employees (DSS PCA waiver application Appendix C-2-a)
  • PCA training curriculum viewed and follow-up exam passed with 70% in each section, certificate kept in the personnel record (PCA waiver Appendix C-1/C-3)

Why some registries are not screened yet

The registry blocks automated access
The registry's website turns away automated lookups. We don't work around that, so for now your staff search it themselves.
The registry's terms forbid automated searches
The registry's terms, or the law behind it, rule out automated or third-party searches, so ezOIG doesn't run them.

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Connecticut's rules for this program, checked against the regulations as of October 15, 2026. Rules change, and an agency's own contract or license can add to them. Confirm what applies to you with Connecticut Department of Social Services (HUSKY Health, Connecticut Medical Assistance Program) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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