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Independent Living and TBI/SCI Waivers (MDRS)

Case managers, nurses and direct care workers giving personal care or transition services; the Department of Rehabilitation Services is the waivers' sole provider, and participants choose their own workers.

IL / TBI-SCI · 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. 208, R. 2.3(B)(2), 4.3(B)(2)

    Conduct registry checks, prior to employment and monthly thereafter, to ensure individuals providing case management and personal care services or transition services are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry or listed on the Office of Inspector General's Exclusion Database

    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
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 208, R. 2.3(B)(2), 4.3(B)(2)

    Conduct registry checks, prior to employment and monthly thereafter, to ensure individuals providing case management and personal care services or transition services are not listed on the Mississippi Nurse Aide Abuse Registry or listed on the Office of Inspector General's Exclusion Database

    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 At hire and at least annually, nurses; plus continuous Board of Nursing alerts
    BASIS
    Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 208, R. 2.3(C)(1)(d)-(e), 4.3(C)(1)(d)-(e)

    MDRS must subscribe with the Mississippi Board of Nursing to receive immediate electronic notification of adverse or disciplinary action taken against any nurse providing services under the IL waiver. ... MDRS must verify provider qualifications upon hire and at least annually and maintain documentation of that verification in the employee file.

    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. 2.3(B)(3) and 4.3(B)(3) bar employing people convicted of listed sex offenses

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • National fingerprint-based criminal background check before employment and every two years (Miss. Admin. Code tit. 23, pt. 208, R. 2.3(B)(1), 4.3(B)(1))
  • Qualifications verified at hire and at least annually (R. 2.3(C)(1)(e))

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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