(a) Each contracting CDDO shall ensure the quality of the services being provided to persons being served by the CDDO or by an affiliate. Ensuring quality shall include providing for on-site monitoring by a local committee made up of persons served, their families, guardians, interested citizens, and providers. The type and intensity of on-site review shall be determined by the local committee and shall include at least a determination of all of the following:
- (1) Services that are paid for are delivered.
- (2) Services that are delivered are paid for in accordance with the terms of any agreement or contract in force, including any payment requirement that the person being served or a third party acting on behalf of the person being served has the responsibility to meet.
- (3) Services are being provided in a manner meeting applicable requirements provided for in article 63.
- (4) The CDDO or affiliate is affording the person being served all of the person's legally protected rights.
(5) The CDDO or affiliate meets both of these requirements:
- (A) Is reporting any suspicions of abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the appropriate state agency; and
- (B) has corrected or is actively in the process of correcting the cause of any confirmed violation.
- (b) This regulation shall take effect on and after October 1, 1998.
(Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 1997 Supp. 39-1801, et seq.; effective July 1, 1996; amended Oct. 1, 1998.)