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Emergency Rate Adjustment Authority for Wildfires

January 17, 2025

On January 14, 2025, DDS released a directive providing Regional Center Executive Directors of Regional Centers affected by the State of Emergency on January 7, 2025, including NLACRC, to approve rate adjustments for vendors with a negotiated rate in the following service codes if they have an increased cost directly attributable to health and safety needs arising from the wildfire emergency, such as evacuation support, emergency staffing coverage, or additional service hours necessitated by power outages and other emergency conditions.

The Directive is available here: D-2025-Emergencies-001 Emergency Rate Adjustment Authority For Wildfires

This Directive is effective 1/14/2025 – 2/13/2025 unless extended by DDS and applies to the following service codes with negotiated rates per WIC, Sections 4681.6, 4689.8, and 4691.9:

008, 017, 021, 028, 031, 034, 051, 055, 056, 062, 063, 065, 073, 076, 091, 094, 100, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 113, 114, 116, 117, 605, 612, 615, 616, 620, 645, 693, 880, 896

Services with rates that are Usual & Customary, Schedule of Maximum Allowances, or DDS-set rates are not eligible for this rate adjustment.

Service Providers may submit a request to H&SWaiverRequest@nlacrc.org with the following details:

Email subject: Wildfire Emergency Health & Safety

• Vendor#:
• Service Code:
• Consumers Impacted:
  • UCI
• Purpose of H&S Exemption Request:
• Requested effective date:
• Anticipated end date:
• Description of increased costs:

Upon submission, the H&S team will contact you to further discuss and request supporting documentation.