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EPSDT Private Duty Nursing and Personal Care Services

Employees of Medicaid private duty nursing (PDN) providers serving EPSDT-eligible children, including the CNAs they employ for personal care services; the two services share one screening rule.

EPSDT PDN/PCS · ON FILE
Registries named
6
Required
5
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
3 of 6
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 employment and monthly
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 223, R. 4.2(B)(2)(b), 5.2(B)(2)(b)

    Conduct registry checks, prior to employment and monthly thereafter, to ensure employees are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry or listed on the Office of Inspector General's Exclusion Database and maintain the record of the checks in the employee’s personnel file.

    Read the source sos.ms.gov

  2. Sanctioned Provider List (Provider Terminations)

    Mississippi Division of Medicaid

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly, all employees and contractors
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 200, R. 4.2(A)(15); Division of Medicaid, Provider Terminations page

    Providers are responsible for screening all employees and contractors to identify excluded individuals and are responsible for searching the Office of Inspector General website, the System for Award Management (SAM) and the Mississippi Medicaid Sanction Provider List monthly to capture exclusions and reinstatements.

    Read the source web.archive.org

  3. Mississippi Nurse Aide Registry (Nurse Aide Abuse Registry)

    Mississippi State Department of Health (run by Headmaster/TMU)

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry's terms forbid automated searches
    WHEN
    MONTHLY Before employment and monthly, all employees; CNA certification also checked before employment and yearly
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 223, R. 4.2(B)(2)(b), 5.2(B)(1), 5.2(B)(2)(b)

    Conduct registry checks, prior to employment and monthly thereafter, to ensure employees are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry or listed on the Office of Inspector General's Exclusion Database and maintain the record of the checks in the employee’s personnel file.

    Read the source sos.ms.gov

  4. Mississippi Board of Nursing License Verification

    Mississippi Board of Nursing

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before employment and yearly, nurses
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 223, R. 4.2(B)(1)

    Conduct licensure checks with the Mississippi Board of Nursing, prior to employment and yearly thereafter.

    Read the source sos.ms.gov

  5. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly, all employees and contractors
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 200, R. 4.2(A)(15); Division of Medicaid, Provider Terminations page

    Providers are responsible for screening all employees and contractors to identify excluded individuals and are responsible for searching the Office of Inspector General website, the System for Award Management (SAM) and the Mississippi Medicaid Sanction Provider List monthly to capture exclusions and reinstatements.

    Read the source web.archive.org

Expected checks

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

  1. Mississippi Sex Offender Registry

    Mississippi Department of Public Safety

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire
    BASIS
    Standard practice; R. 4.2(B)(4) and 5.2(B)(4) bar employing people convicted of listed sex offenses

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • National fingerprint-based criminal background check, state and federal databases, on all employees and volunteers before employment and every two years (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 223, R. 4.2(B)(2)(a), 5.2(B)(2)(a))
  • No employee or volunteer convicted of the listed felonies, including sex offenses and felonious abuse of a vulnerable adult (R. 4.2(B)(4), 5.2(B)(4))
  • CNAs: mandatory annual training and at least 12 hours of continuing education a year (R. 5.2(B)(5), (9))

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 Mississippi'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 Mississippi Division of Medicaid or your own counsel before relying on it.

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