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NEW YORK · CARE PROGRAM

Certified Home Health Agency / Licensed Home Care Services Agency

Agency staff, including home health and personal care aides. LHCSAs delivering Medicaid personal care (18 NYCRR 505.14) follow the same rules, so personal care is merged here.

HOME HEALTH · ON FILE
Registries named
5
Required
4
Expected
1
Screened by ezOIG
4 of 5
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 At hire and monthly (at least every 30 days)
    BASIS
    18 NYCRR 521-1.1(b)(1), 521-1.4(g)(3)(i) (PHL Article 36 agencies)

    In determining the exclusion status of a person required providers shall review the following State and Federal databases at least every thirty (30) days: (a) New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General Exclusion List; (b) Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's List of Excluded Individuals and Entities

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  2. NYS Medicaid Exclusion List

    Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (OMIG)

    SCREENED BY EZOIG State Medicaid exclusion list check
    WHEN
    MONTHLY At hire and monthly (at least every 30 days)
    BASIS
    18 NYCRR 521-1.1(b)(1), 521-1.4(g)(3)(i) (PHL Article 36 agencies)

    In determining the exclusion status of a person required providers shall review the following State and Federal databases at least every thirty (30) days: (a) New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General Exclusion List; (b) Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's List of Excluded Individuals and Entities

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  3. New York State Home Care Registry

    Department of Health

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Credential verification
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before a home health or personal care aide first provides services (aides who began training on or after 25 September 2009); employment entered within 10 business days
    BASIS
    PHL § 3613(2); 10 NYCRR 403.5(a)(1), (3), 766.11(b)(2)

    For any home care services worker who began their training on or after September 25, 2009, a home care services entity shall access the worker's registry information prior to the worker beginning to provide home care services for that entity.

    Read the source law.cornell.edu

  4. Office of the Professions Verification Search

    NYS Education Department, Office of the Professions

    NOT SCREENED YET The registry blocks automated access
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire for nurses, therapists and other licensed staff; the licence must stay valid while they work
    BASIS
    42 CFR 484.100(b); 10 NYCRR 766.11(g)

    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 law.cornell.edu

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 Medicare and Medicaid providers

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Fingerprint-based criminal history record check through DOH for unlicensed staff giving face-to-face care (PHL § 2899-a; 10 NYCRR Part 402; 10 NYCRR 766.11(f)(2))
  • Employment history or references verified before patient contact (10 NYCRR 766.11(f)(1))
  • Health assessment before patient care, TB test before employment and assessed yearly (10 NYCRR 766.11(c)-(d))
  • Aide training and qualifications under 10 NYCRR 700.2 (10 NYCRR 766.11(b)(1)); Medicare aide competency for CHHAs (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.

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into New York'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 New York State Department of Health (Office of Health Insurance Programs); exclusions by the Office of the Medicaid Inspector General or your own counsel before relying on it.

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