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  1. The Tier 1 Area Eligibility Waiver for Homes: What You Need to Know

    Last Updated: 05/08/2023 in COVID-19 Information
    Note: This waiver, along with the Keep Kids Fed Act, will expire June 30, 2023. In April 2021, the USDA released a suite of waivers for CACFP. This suite included a waiver that allows all participating family daycare homes to be reimbursed at T...

  2. Validate Scanned Forms

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Process & Manage Claims Process Scan Claims
    Validation is the process that converts raw, scannable form data into legitimate database values, such as children, food, meals, reviews, and so on. When you validate forms, everything on the form is examined to ensure that it was marked and properl...

  3. Scan Forms

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Process & Manage Claims Process Scan Claims
    Scanning forms in Minute Menu HX consists of two major steps: Scan the form batch. This gets the raw scanned data from the physical forms into your computer. Validate the form batch. This translates the raw data into valid database valu...

  4. Complete Scannable Form Spot Checks

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Process & Manage Claims Process Scan Claims
    Once you receive scannable forms from your providers and begin sorting them for scanning, you should do a quick spot check on each packet. Completing this step helps you catch errors before you have scanned the form, which allows you to attempt to c...

  5. Understand Forms

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Process & Manage Claims Process Scan Claims
    Child Enrollment Forms When scanning child enrollment forms, ensure that you have separated different versions of the enrollment forms into different stacks for scanning. For example, if you scan a 3002E enrollment form when the scanner i...

  6. Add Reviews Manually

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Review Homes Record Manual & Scan Reviews
    You can manually add reviews to a provider's record outside of KidKare, or the Admin Review site. This is especially useful if you do all review work manually. Click the Providers menu and select Provider Reviews . The List Reviews w...

  7. Enroll Providers

    Last Updated: 03/24/2023 in Manage Providers Enroll & Manage Providers
    You enroll providers with the Enroll Provider Wizard. This wizard walks you through the process of adding a provider. It also checks some of the data you enter to ensure that it is logically correct. For example, it ensures that any start dates you ...

  8. March 2023

    Last Updated: 03/21/2023 in Release Notes
    March 15, 2023 ADDED: a new preference which provides the option to automatically withdraw a provider's own children when they reach 11 years old, if the provider is not income eligible to claim them. FIXED:  When a review ...

  9. Complete the Review Questionnaire

    Last Updated: 12/22/2022 in Review Homes Record Reviews Online
    Once a Monitor is ready to review a provider, they can log in to KidKare on any device and complete the review. Completing the Questionnaire in KidKare Note: Click the link below   to download and print our printable Quick ...

  10. Add Admin Review Site Users

    Last Updated: 12/22/2022 in Administrative Tasks Add & Manage Monitors
    Before users can access the Admin Review site to configure online review questionnaires, you must set them up as an administrative user. Click the Providers menu, and select Monitors . The User/Monitors Information window opens. No...
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