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FLORIDA · CARE PROGRAM

Nursing Home (licensed under ch. 400, part II, F.S.)

AHCA-licensed nursing homes; Level 2 screening covers employees and contractors who give personal care or have access to residents' funds, property or living areas, and nursing assistants must be certified CNAs.

NURSING FACILITY · ON FILE
Registries named
6
Required
6
Expected
0
Screened by ezOIG
6 of 6
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 (Florida Medicaid providers)
    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 (Florida Medicaid providers)
    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 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.; § 400.215, 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. Certified Nursing Assistant registry (Board of Nursing), MQA License Verification

    Florida Department of Health, Board of Nursing

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Nurse aide registry check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before anyone serves as a nurse aide; also every other state's registry the facility believes holds information on the person (42 CFR 483.35(d)(5))
    BASIS
    42 CFR 483.35(d)(4)-(5); 42 CFR 483.12(a)(3)(ii); § 400.211(1)-(2), F.S.

    Before allowing an individual to serve as a nurse aide, a facility must receive registry verification that the individual has met competency evaluation requirements

    Read the source ecfr.gov

  5. 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, licensed staff
    BASIS
    42 CFR 483.12(a)(3)(iii)

    Not employ or otherwise engage individuals who— ... (iii) Have a disciplinary action in effect against his or her professional license by a state licensure body as a result of a finding of abuse, neglect, exploitation, mistreatment of residents or misappropriation of resident property.

    Read the source ecfr.gov

  6. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    MONTHLY Monthly, every employee and contractor (Florida Medicaid providers)
    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

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 (§ 400.215, 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 status of every screened person kept current in the Clearinghouse, changes reported within 5 business days (§ 435.12(2)(c), F.S.)
  • Florida CNA certification within 4 months of starting as a nursing assistant; an out-of-state CNA must be positively verified as active on that state's registry with no findings (§ 400.211(1)-(2), F.S.)
  • Employment history of CNA applicants submitted and verified (§ 400.211(3), F.S.)

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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