(a) The Texas Department of Human Services (department) shall follow all requirements for the survey and certification of skilled nursing facilities, nursing facilities, and intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded as provided in Title 42, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 488.
(b) The department shall follow all instructions, guidelines, and interpretive memoranda issued by the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) that apply to the survey and certification agency under the Title XVIII Medicare Program and the Title XVIII Medicaid Program. The department shall use the survey methods, procedures, and forms prescribed by HCFA.
(c) For a survey of an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, the department shall:
  (1) assign a qualified mental retardation professional as a survey team member;
  (2) require each survey team to conduct a final interview with the provider to ensure that the survey team informs the provider of survey findings and that the survey team has requested the necessary information from the provider; and
  (3) allow the provider to record any interview with the survey team and immediately provide the survey team with a copy of the recording.

Source Note: The provisions of this §552.9 adopted to be effective August 31, 1993, 18 TexReg 2725; transferred effective September 1, 1993, as published in the Texas Register September 3, 1993, 18 TexReg 5885; transferred effective June 30, 2024, as published in the May 31, 2024, issue of the Texas Register, 49 TexReg 3935