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FLORIDA · CARE PROGRAM

Homemaker and Companion Services (registered under § 400.509, F.S.)

Non-medical in-home homemaker and companion providers registered with AHCA, including those delivering SMMC long-term care homemaker and companion services; Level 2 screening covers employees and contractors with client contact.

HOMEMAKER · ON FILE
Registries named
4
Required
4
Expected
0
Screened by ezOIG
4 of 4
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 providers)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Non-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 providers)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Non-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 clients (§ 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.; § 400.512, F.S.; § 408.809(1)(e), F.S.

    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 providers)
    BASIS
    Florida Medicaid Non-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

None for this program.

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Level 2 fingerprint-based FDLE and FBI criminal history check, initiated through AHCA's Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, before any contact with clients, with rescreening every 5 years (§ 400.512, F.S.; §§ 408.809(1)(e), (2), 435.06(2)(a), 435.12(2)(d), F.S.; Rule 59A-35.090(2), 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.)
  • Employment or contract history obtained and verified for everyone who will have contact with clients in their homes (§ 400.509(4), F.S.; Rule 59A-8.025(7), 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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