Citations Affected:
IC 12-14-15-1.
Synopsis: Medicaid disability. Amends the Medicaid definition of
disabled person to include a person who has a physical or mental
impairment, disease, or loss that appears reasonably certain to result in
death or that has lasted or appears reasonably certain to last for a
continuous period of at least 12 months without significant
improvement. (Current law requires that the impairment continue
throughout the individual's lifetime.)
Effective: July 1, 2000.
January 10, 2000, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
human services.
substantially impairs the individual's ability to perform labor or
services or to engage in a useful occupation. Employment in a
sheltered workshop or under an approved vocational
rehabilitation plan is not considered a useful occupation for the
purposes of this chapter. The determination of medical disability
under this subdivision shall be made without reference to the
individual's ability to pay for treatment.
(3) Does not have a parent, spouse, or other legally responsible
relative able to support the individual.
(4) Is at least eighteen (18) years of age.
(5) Is residing and intends to remain in Indiana in a bona fide
living arrangement.
(6) Has insufficient income or other resources to provide a
reasonable subsistence according to the standards established by
the division.
(7) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, is not an inmate
of or being maintained by a municipal, state, or national
institution while receiving assistance.
(8) Has not, at any time within five (5) years immediately before
the date of the filing of an application for assistance under this
chapter, made an assignment or transfer of property for the
purpose of making or that will make the individual eligible for
assistance under this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this
chapter.