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Home Health Agency (Medicare-certified)

Employees, contractors and staffing-agency workers who regularly have direct access to patients or provide direct services. Only a Medicare-certified home health agency is a covered facility under MCL 333.20173a.

HOME HEALTH · ON FILE
Registries named
7
Required
6
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
3 of 7
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
    AT HIRE Before hire, all direct-access staff, in the Workforce Background Check registry checks; LARA does not re-run registry checks after hire (Rap Back covers fingerprints only)
    BASIS
    MCL 333.20173a(4) ("all relevant registries"); LARA BCHS, Workforce Background Check: Information and Provider Responsibilities (July 2025)

    REGISTRY CHECKS • OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL – EXCLUSIONARY • SANCTIONED PROVIDER LIST – EXCLUSIONARY • NURSE AIDE ABUSE REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY • PUBLIC SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY ... THE REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT A CHECK OF OTHER LISTED REGISTRIES REMAIN IN EFFECT.

    Read the source miltcpartnership.org

  2. MDHHS Sanctioned Provider List

    Michigan Department of Health and Human Services

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, all direct-access staff, in the Workforce Background Check registry checks; LARA does not re-run registry checks after hire (Rap Back covers fingerprints only)
    BASIS
    MCL 333.20173a(4) ("all relevant registries"); LARA BCHS, Workforce Background Check: Information and Provider Responsibilities (July 2025)

    REGISTRY CHECKS • OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL – EXCLUSIONARY • SANCTIONED PROVIDER LIST – EXCLUSIONARY • NURSE AIDE ABUSE REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY • PUBLIC SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY ... THE REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT A CHECK OF OTHER LISTED REGISTRIES REMAIN IN EFFECT.

    Read the source miltcpartnership.org

  3. Michigan Nurse Aide Registry

    Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Bureau of Community and Health Systems

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry's terms forbid automated searches
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, all direct-access staff, in the Workforce Background Check registry checks; LARA does not re-run registry checks after hire (Rap Back covers fingerprints only)
    BASIS
    MCL 333.20173a(4) ("all relevant registries"); LARA BCHS, Workforce Background Check: Information and Provider Responsibilities (July 2025)

    REGISTRY CHECKS • OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL – EXCLUSIONARY • SANCTIONED PROVIDER LIST – EXCLUSIONARY • NURSE AIDE ABUSE REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY • PUBLIC SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY ... THE REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT A CHECK OF OTHER LISTED REGISTRIES REMAIN IN EFFECT.

    Read the source miltcpartnership.org

  4. Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry (PSOR)

    Michigan State Police

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before hire, all direct-access staff, in the Workforce Background Check registry checks; LARA does not re-run registry checks after hire (Rap Back covers fingerprints only)
    BASIS
    MCL 333.20173a(4) ("all relevant registries"); LARA BCHS, Workforce Background Check: Information and Provider Responsibilities (July 2025)

    REGISTRY CHECKS • OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL – EXCLUSIONARY • SANCTIONED PROVIDER LIST – EXCLUSIONARY • NURSE AIDE ABUSE REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY • PUBLIC SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY – EXCLUSIONARY ... THE REQUIREMENT TO CONDUCT A CHECK OF OTHER LISTED REGISTRIES REMAIN IN EFFECT.

    Read the source miltcpartnership.org

  5. Internet Criminal History Access Tool (ICHAT)

    Michigan State Police, Criminal Justice Information Center

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Only for a conditional hire who will work unsupervised before fingerprint results arrive: before first direct access
    BASIS
    MCL 333.20173a(5)(c)(i)

    The covered facility, at its own expense and before the individual has direct access to or provides direct services to patients or residents of the covered facility, conducts a search of public records on that individual through the internet criminal history access tool maintained by the department of state police

    Read the source legislature.mi.gov

  6. Find / Verify a Licensed Professional (Bureau of Professional Licensing)

    Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

    SCREENED BY EZOIG License verification
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, nurses, therapists and other licensed staff; again at each renewal
    BASIS
    42 CFR 484.100(b)

    The HHA, its branches, and all persons furnishing services to patients must be licensed, certified, or registered, as applicable, in accordance with the state licensing authority as meeting those requirements.

    Read the source ecfr.gov

Expected checks

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

  1. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire; periodically after (standard practice)
    BASIS
    Standard practice; MDHHS's sanctioned-provider page lists sam.gov among the sources providers should monitor

    For that reason, the following sources should also be monitored to assure services are not provided by a sanctioned individual or entity. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) sanctioned provider information is available on the following websites: http://exclusions.oig.hhs.gov and www.sam.gov

    Read the source michigan.gov

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Fingerprint-based Michigan State Police and FBI check through the LARA Workforce Background Check system before hire, with Rap Back notice of later Michigan arrests and convictions (MCL 333.20173a(2), (4), (13))
  • Written consent and identification acceptable to the Michigan State Police at application (MCL 333.20173a(3))
  • Written agreement to report arraignments, convictions and substantiated findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation (MCL 333.20173a(11))
  • Home health aide training and competency evaluation (42 CFR 484.80)

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 Michigan'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 Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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