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RHODE ISLAND · CARE PROGRAM

Home Care Provider (personal care and homemaker agencies)

Every employee of a RIDOH-licensed home care provider, including agencies delivering Medicaid personal care and homemaker services; the rule is the one home nursing care providers follow.

HOME CARE · ON FILE
Registries named
4
Required
4
Expected
0
Screened by ezOIG
4 of 4
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, then monthly (Medicaid-participating agencies)
    BASIS
    EOHHS letter to Medicaid providers on screening for excluded individuals (Nov. 2020)

    All providers in the Medicaid program must take the following steps to determine whether their employees and contractors are excluded individuals or entities: ... Search the HHS-OIG website monthly to capture exclusions and reinstatements that have occurred since the last search.

    Read the source eohhs.ri.gov

  2. RIDOH License Verification

    Rhode Island Department of Health

    SCREENED BY EZOIG License verification
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, every employee licensed, certified or registered by RIDOH
    BASIS
    216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(F)

    For every person employed by the home nursing care provider or home care provider who is licensed, certified, or registered by the Department, a mechanism shall be in place to electronically verify such licensure via the Department's licensure database.

    Read the source rules.sos.ri.gov

  3. Nurse Aide Registry (Nursing Assistant licences)

    Rhode Island Department of Health

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Nurse aide registry check
    WHEN
    AT HIRE At hire, nursing assistants (licensed by RIDOH)
    BASIS
    216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(F); 216-RICR-40-05-22 §§ 22.3(A)(21), 22.5(A)

    For every person employed by the home nursing care provider or home care provider who is licensed, certified, or registered by the Department, a mechanism shall be in place to electronically verify such licensure via the Department's licensure database.

    Read the source rules.sos.ri.gov

  4. SAM.gov exclusions

    General Services Administration

    SCREENED BY EZOIG Federal exclusion check against SAM.gov
    WHEN
    AT HIRE Before employment (Medicaid-participating agencies); the letter gives no repeat cadence for this list
    BASIS
    EOHHS letter to Medicaid providers on screening for excluded individuals (Nov. 2020), which names the Excluded Parties List System, now SAM.gov exclusions

    All providers in the Medicaid program must take the following steps to determine whether their employees and contractors are excluded individuals or entities: ... Search the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) website by the names of an individual or entity.

    Read the source eohhs.ri.gov

Expected checks

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

None for this program.

Also required

Not registry lookups; ezOIG doesn't run these
  • Fingerprint-based national criminal records check through the Attorney General's BCI, started before or within one week of employment, for anyone with routine unsupervised patient contact (R.I. Gen. Laws § 23-17-34; 216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(L))
  • Reference check before employment (216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(G)(9))
  • Pre-employment health screening under 216-RICR-20-15-7 (216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(K))
  • Homemaker training of 20 classroom hours and 5 practical hours, with a final examination (216-RICR-40-10-17 § 17.5.3(I))

Guidance, not legal advice

This page summarizes ezOIG's research into Rhode Island'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 Rhode Island Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) or your own counsel before relying on it.

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