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DD Code 725 Services needed to maintain a clean, sanitary, and safe environment in an individual’s home. This service includes heavy household chores such as washing floors, windows, and walls, tacking down loose rugs and tiles, and moving heavy items of furniture for safe access and egress. These services are provided when no one in the household is capable of either performing or paying for the services and when not other relative, caregiver, landlord, community volunteer/volunteer agency, or third-party payer is capable of or responsible for their provision.

DD Code 726 Services that may include instruction in skills and individual wishes to acquire, retain, or improve that enhance independence, productivity, integration, and/or maintain the individual’s physical and mental skills. These supports are provided:

• For an individual to participate in activities to facilitate independence and promote community inclusion and contribution
• And, at any time in community settings of the individual’s choice.

DD Code 727 Services provided for the purpose of facilitating independence and promoting community integration by supporting the individual to gain or maintain skills to live as independently as possible in the type of community living defined in the individual’s Individual Support Plan. The type, frequency, and duration of direct support and other community living support is defined in the plan of care based on the individual’s selected housing arrangement and assessed needs. Supports are available to individuals who live alone, with roommates, or with family. The services include support designed to develop of maintain skills required for self-care, directing supports, and caring for the immediate environment such as:

1. Personal skills, including eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, and mobility.
2. Socialization, including development or maintenance of self-awareness and self-control, social responsiveness, social amenities, and interpersonal skills.
3. Community participation, recreation, or leisure, including the development or maintenance of skills to use generic community services, facilities, or businesses.
4. Communication, including development or maintenance of expressive and receptive skills in verbal and non-verbal language and the functional application of acquired reading and writing skills.
5. Personal environmental skills including planning and preparing meals, budgeting, laundry, and housecleaning.

DD 729 Training and counseling services for the family of an individual to increase capabilities to care for, support, and maintain the individual in the home. This service includes: instruction about treatment regimens and use of equipment specified in the Individual Support Plan; information, education, and training about the individual’s disability, medical, and behavioral conditions; and counseling for the family to relieve the stress associated with caring for an individual with disabilities. This service is provided by licensed psychologists, professionals licensed to practice medicine, social workers, counselors, or in organized conferences and workshops that are limited to topics related to the individual’s disability, identified support needs, or specialized medical or habilitative supports needs. The training is not provided to caregivers.

DD 730 Support consisting of general household activities such as meal preparation and routine household care provide by a trained homemaker. The services are provided when the person regularly responsible for these activities as well as caring for an individual in the home is temporarily absent, temporarily unable to manage the home as well as care for self or the individual in the home, or needs to devote additional time to caring for the individual.

DD Code 731 Services that allow individuals to gain access to community services, activities, and resources that are not medical in nature.

DD Code 732 The services of a professional licensed under ORS 675.240 that are defined under the approved State Medicaid Plan, except that the amount, duration, and scope specified in the State Medicaid Plan do not apply.

DD Code 734 Services provided by a professional licensed under ORS 688.020 that are defined under the approved State Medicaid Plan, except the amount, duration, and scope specified in the State Medicaid Plan do not apply.

DD Code 735 Short-term care and supervision provided because of the absence, or need for relief of, persons normally providing care to individuals unable to care for themselves. Respite may be provided in the individual’s or respite provider’s home, a foster home, a group home, a licensed day care center, or a community care facility that is ot a private residence. Respite includes two types of care, neither of which can be characterized as 8-hours-a-day, 5-days-a-week services or are provided to allow caregivers to attend school or work:

• Temporary respite care, which is provided on less than a 24-hour basis, and
• 24-hour overnight care, which is provided in segments of 24-hour units that may be sequential.

DD Code 738 Treatment, training, consultation, or other unique services necessary to achieve outcomes in the plan of care that are not available through State Medicaid Plan services or other Support Services isted in 309-041-1870(6)(a-o). Typical supports include the services of a behavior consultant, a licensed nurse, or a social/sexual consultant to:

1. Assess the needs of the individual and family, including environmental factors.
2. Develop a plan of support.
3. Train caregivers to implement the support plan.
4. Monitor implementation of the plan.
5. Revision of the plan as needed.