In-home supportive services: quality assurance and fraud prevention.

Existing law provides for the county-administered In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons receive services enabling them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, the California State Association of Counties, the County Welfare Directors Association, and stakeholders representing consumers and providers, to convene a workgroup to develop and issue a report evaluating the implementation of quality assurance and fraud prevention and detection activities enacted from 2004 to the present. Existing law requires the department to provide this report on or before December 31, 2010. This bill would, in addition, require the department to continue to provide this report after December 31, 2010, on an annual basis. This bill would also require the department, in consultation with the above-mentioned entities, to identify stable ongoing funding sources for IHSS services, solicit recommendations for improving the delivery of long-term care services, as described, and solicit recommendations regarding the role the IHSS program would have in accomplishing those improvements. It would require the department to report these findings and recommendations gathered as a result of these efforts to the Legislature on or before May 1, 2011.