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HRSA Form 5A Service Descriptors Document Updates
HRSA quietly rewrote the Form 5A Service Descriptors — and the "last updated" date on the document still doesn't show it. Preventive Dental got gutted, Specialty Services vanished entirely, and several other descriptors lost language health centers that may have influenced their services. If nobody's checked your scope of project against these changes, you won't know you're out of compliance until an Operational Site Visit tells you.
Documenting Contracted Clinical Staff on HRSA Form 5A
HRSA clarified how to document locum tenens and other contracted clinical staff on Form 5A: check every service provided and mirror it in the contract.
SVP Update: Form 5A Contracts & Agreements
HRSA has recently updated the Site Visit Protocol. Specifically, areas addressing contracts and agreements now have clarifying language added.
