YES:
MR. SPEAKER:
Your Committee on Public Health , to which was referred Senate Bill 481 , has
had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the House with the
recommendation that said bill be amended as follows:
years of age; and
(B) receiving Medicaid home and community based waiver
services.
(b) As used in this SECTION, "eligible services" means care
received in the home or the community by an eligible Medicaid
recipient that meets the recipient's long term care needs and
without which the recipient would be at risk for institutional
placement.
(c) As used in this SECTION, "office" refers to the office of
Medicaid policy and planning established by IC 12-8-6-1.
(d) Before January 1, 2006, the office shall apply to the United
States Department of Health and Human Services for approval of
a waiver (commonly referred to as the cash and counseling or cash
and carrying demonstration waiver) that would allow an eligible
Medicaid recipient to receive a cash allowance or have control of
a specific budget so that the recipient may purchase eligible
services. The office may include in the waiver request a provision
that would allow the office to provide an eligible Medicaid recipient
with a case manager to assist the recipient by assessing the
recipient's needs and establishing the recipient's budget.
(e) The office may not implement the waiver until the office files
an affidavit with the governor attesting that the federal waiver
applied for under this SECTION is in effect. The office shall file the
affidavit under this subsection not later than five (5) days after the
office is notified by the United States Department of Health and
Human Services that the waiver is approved.
(f) If the office receives approval of a waiver under this
SECTION from the United States Department of Health and
Human Services and the governor receives the affidavit filed under
subsection (e), the office shall implement the waiver not more than
sixty (60) days after the governor receives the affidavit.
(g) The office may adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 necessary to
and when so amended that said bill do pass.