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Describe the policy or procedure. Generally, providers will receive payment within five days of billing for services. Providers typically bill on the 15th and last day of the month for services provided during that month.

b) To the extent practicable, support the fixed costs of providing child care services by delinking provider payments from a child's occasional absences by: (Note: The Lead Agency is to choose at least one of the following): Paying based on a child's enrollment rather than attendance.

Describe the policy or procedure. Amendment - Temporary COVID-19 Policy/Procedure - 4.5.1: Child care subsidy regulations were suspended temporarily by Executive Order 20-18, April 15, 2020. Temporary suspension of regulations permit an open, staffed, and licensed child care provider to be paid when an eligible child is not receiving care from the provider because the child's parent or legal caretaker, due to the COVID-19 emergency, either chooses to keep the child home or is unable to utilize care. DHHS will establish and publish guidance for payment for children absent from care. The amendment is in effect until 30 days after the state of emergency ends. At that time, the child care subsidy regulations payment practices for child care return to normal operations.

Providing full payment if a child attends at least 85 percent of the authorized time. Describe the policy or procedure.

Providing full payment if a child is absent for five or fewer days in a month. Describe the policy or procedure. Allowing five or fewer absent days per month is in the draft regulations, pendingpublic hearing, which is scheduled for 10/25/19. Draft regulations can be found at: http://dhhs.ne.gov/Pages/Upcoming-Public-Hearings.aspx. When approved a child care provider would be allowed to bill the full authorized amount for times the child is absent on a scheduled day, up to 5 times per month.

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