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FLORIDA · CARE PROGRAM

Assisted Living Facility and Adult Family-Care Home (ch. 429, parts I and II, F.S.)

Licensed assisted living facilities (including SMMC long-term care assisted living) and adult family-care homes, merged because their screening rules are the same; ALF staff, including contracted staff, and the AFCH provider, relief person, staff and adult household members are Level 2 screened.

ALF / AFCH · ON FILE
Registries named
5
Required
4
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
5 of 5
Rules checked
October 16, 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 Monthly, every employee and contractor (Medicaid-enrolled facilities)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Institutional Provider Agreement (December 2023), ¶ (5)(r)

    Search the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) and System for Award Management (SAM), and the Agency’s final order database, located at http://apps.ahca.myflorida.com/dm_web, monthly to determine whether any employee or contractor has been excluded.

    Read the source portal.flmmis.com

  2. AHCA final order database: Medicaid Sanctioned Providers

    Agency for Health Care Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    MONTHLY Monthly, every employee and contractor (Medicaid-enrolled facilities)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Institutional Provider Agreement (December 2023), ¶ (5)(r)

    Search the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) and System for Award Management (SAM), and the Agency’s final order database, located at http://apps.ahca.myflorida.com/dm_web, monthly to determine whether any employee or contractor has been excluded.

    Read the source portal.flmmis.com

  3. Florida Sexual Offender and Predator Registry

    Florida Department of Law Enforcement

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Sex offender registry check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, before any contact with residents (§ 435.06(2)(a)), within Level 2 screening: registries of every state lived in during the past 5 years; again with each 5-year Level 2 rescreening
    BASIS
    § 435.04(1)(a), F.S.; § 429.174, F.S.; § 429.67(4), F.S.; Rule 59A-36.010(2)(f), F.A.C.

    A security background investigation under this section also includes a search of the sexual predator and sexual offender registries of any state in which the current or prospective employee resided during the immediate preceding 5 years.

    Read the source leg.state.fl.us

  4. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    MONTHLY Monthly, every employee and contractor (Medicaid-enrolled facilities)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Institutional Provider Agreement (December 2023), ¶ (5)(r)

    Search the List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) and System for Award Management (SAM), and the Agency’s final order database, located at http://apps.ahca.myflorida.com/dm_web, monthly to determine whether any employee or contractor has been excluded.

    Read the source portal.flmmis.com

Expected checks

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

  1. MQA License Verification (health care practitioners)

    Florida Department of Health, Division of Medical Quality Assurance

    SCREENED BY EZOIG License verification
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, ALF staff whose services require a licence or certification
    BASIS
    Rule 59A-36.015(2)(a)2., F.A.C. requires copies of licences or certifications in personnel records; no rule names a licence lookup

    Copies of all licenses or certifications for all staff providing services that require licensing or certification,

    Read the source flrules.org

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Level 2 fingerprint-based screening through the Clearinghouse before contact with residents, with 5-year rescreening; for an AFCH, also the relief person and all adult household members (§§ 429.174, 429.67(4), 408.809, F.S.; Rule 59A-36.010(2)(f), F.A.C.)
  • Documentation of Level 2 compliance in each ALF staff member's personnel record (Rule 59A-36.015(2)(a)3., F.A.C.)
  • Attestation of Compliance with Background Screening Requirements (AHCA Form 3100-0008) signed at hire and kept with the eligibility result in the personnel file (Rule 59A-35.090(2)(d), (3)(c), F.A.C.)
  • Personnel records with employment application, references and freedom from communicable disease (Rule 59A-36.015(2)(a), F.A.C.)

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Florida's rules for this program, checked against the regulations as of October 16, 2026. Rules change, and an agency's own contract or license can add to them. Confirm what applies to you with Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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