SHARS Survey: This one-question survey is required for ALL districts that received IDEA-B grant funding in the 2023-2024 school year, regardless of whether they received SHARS reimbursements. The survey must be completed by a district employee. Please complete the SHARS Reimbursement Survey by November 1, 2023. For help completing the survey, refer to the SHARS Reimbursement … Read More
HHSC RELEASES SHARS POLICY CHANGES
ATTENTION LEAs! Your input is needed before July 8, 2024. TEA has released a copy of HHSC’s SHARS Policy Changes. PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL 5:00PM ON JULY 8th, 2024. Please see a copy of their email as well as a direct link to the site information below. TEA … Read More
2024–2025 Process for Requesting Indirect Cost Rates (Charter Schools Only)
Please see TEA posting for Charter Schools on how to request Indirect Cost Rates for the 24-25 school Year. TEA POSTING
TEA UPDATE: January 19, 2024 Indirect Cost Report Proposal Deadline
Please see TEA’s January 2, 2024 Bulletin regarding the January 19th, 2024 deadline for submitting the “Indirect Cost Rate Proposal (ICRP) workbook. ⚠️ BULLETIN LINK⚠️ Department of Grant Compliance and Administration Deadline Reminder from the Federal Fiscal Compliance and Reporting Division January 19, 2024: Deadline for Requesting Indirect Cost Rates … Read More
TEA SHARS Reimbursement Survey. DUE DATE 11/3/2023
SHARS REIMBURSEMENT Survey Breakdown DUE DATE: 11/3/2023 Many school districts have begun receiving the notification to complete the annual SHARS Reimbursement Survey. This one-question survey is required for ALL districts that received IDEA-B grant funding in the 2022-2023 school year. The survey must be completed by a district employee. All … Read More
UPDATED: 10/20/23: TEA Town Halls for assistance in SLP & Audiology ORP (MORE DATES Added)
TEA Update: OCTOBER 20, 2023 – More Dates Added Last year SHARS billing rules changed requiring SLP and Audiologists to have Referrals before submitting Medicaid claims. In doing so, (LEA) staff registered as an “Individual.” Now TMHP has created an option to enroll as an Ordering, Referring, and Prescribing (ORP) … Read More
Indirect Cost Rate Notification
Annually, ISDs must request an indirect cost rate by completing and submitting the ICRP Additional Costs Workbook (ACW). The deadline for submitting the workbook, and thus requesting indirect cost rates, was January 19, 2023. TEA issues two indirect cost rates to local educational agencies (LEAs), a restricted rate and an unrestricted … Read More
SHARS Updates Now Available
The Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership (TMHP) has updated the Texas Medicaid Provider Procedures Manual, School Health and Related Services (SHARS) Handbook to clarify the items below. Revisions are in red in the SHARS handbook and a synopsis of updates can be seen in the Clarification for Some SHARS Benefit Information notice. Eligible providers … Read More
Annual SHARS Survey
To conduct IDEA-B LEA maintenance of effort (MOE) compliance reviews, TEA must know how LEAs and fiscal agents expended any reimbursements they received under the School Health and Related Services (SHARS) program. All LEAs that received IDEA-B grant funding in the 2021–2022 school year must therefore submit the School Health … Read More
SHARS Benefits to Change for Texas Medicaid
SHARS Benefits to Change for Texas Medicaid As we approach the beginning of the 2023 FFY (October 1, 2022) as well as the November 1, 2022 deadline for Speech Pathology policy changes, ONWARD wishes to remind you of these prior notifications. Starting in August 13, 2021 ONWARD began releasing training … Read More