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Basic Home Care Provider and Unlicensed Waiver Services

Non-medical home care: basic home care licensees (MDH) and enrolled providers of unlicensed waiver services such as homemaker, companion and respite under the Elderly Waiver, Alternative Care, CADI, BI and DD programs. Screening is the same for both, so they are merged.

BASIC HOME CARE · ON FILE
Registries named
3
Required
2
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
2 of 3
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
    MONTHLY Before hire and monthly
    BASIS
    MHCP Provider Manual, Enrollment with MHCP: check federal and state excluded provider lists

    Enrolling or enrolled MHCP providers must make sure they, their company, owners, managers, employees and contractors are not on the list. Search LEIE by the individual's or entity's name: Before enrolling; Before hiring new employees or entering into a contract with a contractor; Monthly, to see changes since the last search.

    Read the source dhs.state.mn.us

  2. MHCP Excluded Provider Lists

    Minnesota Department of Human Services (MHCP)

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    MONTHLY Before hire and monthly; record the date, time, and name and title of the person who checked
    BASIS
    Minn. Stat. § 256B.064, subd. 3(b) (monthly); MHCP Provider Manual, Excluded Provider Lists (before hiring)

    (b) The entity must check the exclusion list on a monthly basis and document the date and time the exclusion list was checked and the name and title of the person who checked the exclusion list.

    Read the source revisor.mn.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
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly
    BASIS
    Standard practice for MHCP providers; no Minnesota rule names SAM.gov

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Fingerprint-based DHS background study before direct contact: basic home care employees, contractors and volunteers (Minn. Stat. §§ 144A.476, subd. 2; 144.057); waiver service owners, operators and direct-contact staff and volunteers (Minn. Stat. §§ 245C.03, subd. 6; 256B.4912, subd. 1)
  • Training and competency evaluation for unlicensed home care personnel (Minn. Stat. § 144A.4795, subd. 3)
  • Tuberculosis infection control program for licensed home care providers (Minn. Stat. § 144A.4798)

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.

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Minnesota'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 Minnesota Department of Human Services (Minnesota Health Care Programs, MHCP) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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