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iBudget Florida waiver and APD-licensed residential facilities and adult day training (Agency for Persons with Disabilities)

Developmental Disabilities Individual Budgeting (iBudget) waiver providers, support coordinators, and staff and volunteers of APD-licensed group homes, foster homes and adult day training programs; Level 2 screening covers direct service providers unrelated to their clients.

IBUDGET (APD) · 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 waiver 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 waiver 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 rescreening
    BASIS
    § 435.04(1)(a), F.S.; § 393.0655(1), F.S.; Rule 65G-2.008(2)(b), F.A.C.; iBudget Handbook (May 2023), ch. 1

    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 waiver 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

  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, nurses and other licensed providers
    BASIS
    iBudget Handbook (May 2023), ch. 1, requires nurses (private duty, respite, special medical home care) to be licensed under ch. 464, F.S.; no rule names a licence lookup

    Providers of private duty nursing services must be nurses registered or licensed in accordance with Chapter 464, F.S., and within the scope of Florida’s Nurse Practice Act

    Read the source flrules.org

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Level 2 fingerprint-based screening with employment history checks and local criminal records checks; household members aged 12 and over in a provider's home are screened too (§ 393.0655(1), F.S.)
  • Provider applicants: Level 2 screening and an APD Affidavit of Good Moral Character (iBudget Handbook, May 2023, ch. 1)
  • Personnel file for each employee documenting qualifications, training and background screening (iBudget Handbook, May 2023, ch. 1)

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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