Complete guide to QIP compliance for residential care facilities
If you cannot prove services were delivered with complete documentation, you will not receive full contracted funding from DDS.
The California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) Quality Incentive Program (QIP) is designed to improve individual outcomes, service provider performance, and the quality of services. Service providers who participate in QIP are eligible for incentive payments when their performance meets or exceeds quality measures.
The key requirement: You must prove that services were actually delivered through complete, verifiable documentation.
What you need to document and report
Goal: Individuals in residential facilities receive preventative health services at medically recommended frequencies.
Eligible Facility Types:
What You Must Document:
Goal: Individuals who want Competitive Integrated Employment (CIE) are employed and receive CIE placement support.
What You Must Document:
Goal: Collect data to enhance the Provider Directory and understand service provider capacity across California.
What You Must Report:
Requirement: EVV compliance is mandatory for QIP eligibility.
EVV Must Capture:
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Important dates to remember
QIP survey submission deadline for FY 2026-27 measures
DDS begins confirming compliance status
Continuous documentation required throughout the year to support QIP submissions
Important: QIP reporting requires data from throughout the year. You can't compile documentation at the last minute—it must be captured as services are delivered.
To be eligible for QIP, service providers must:
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The Quality Incentive Program is a California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) program that lets eligible Regional Center service providers earn their full, incentivized rate by meeting quality measures and compliance requirements. It is tied to rate reform and assessed across measures such as Prevention & Wellness and Provider Capacity.
Eligible residential service types include Adult Residential Facilities for Persons with Special Health Needs (ARFPSHN), Family Home Agencies, Residential Facilities Serving Adults (owner or staff operated), Residential Facilities Serving Children, certain Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly, and Enhanced Behavioral Supports Homes. Providers generally must have delivered eligible services in the prior fiscal year, been fully vendorized before the cutoff date, and be registered in the DDS Provider Directory.
Two things: participate in the required QIP data collection and surveys (for residential providers, the Prevention & Wellness measure), and stay compliant with Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), the HCBS Final Rule, independent audits or reviews, and Provider Directory registration by the DDS deadline for that fiscal year.
It asks residential providers to gather and submit each resident's preventative health data so residents receive preventative care at medically recommended frequencies. For adults that includes a physical exam, dental exam, and cancer screenings; for children, a wellness visit, dental, vision, and immunizations.
If a provider's Regional Center payments total $2 million or more in a fiscal year, an independent audit is required; between $500,000 and $2 million, an independent review. It must be submitted to the vendoring Regional Center within nine months of fiscal year-end under Welfare & Institutions Code 4652.5, unless an exemption applies.
Kura helps you capture and prove the resident-level preventative-health data the Prevention & Wellness measure requires - logging physicals, dental, vision, and screenings with dates, flagging what is coming due, and producing a clean per-resident record - plus the audit-ready history that makes reporting and compliance checks straightforward. DDS runs the surveys and sets eligibility; Kura keeps your data ready.
Eligibility rules, deadlines, and incentive amounts change each fiscal year. Always confirm current requirements on the official DDS QIP website.
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