Citations Affected: None (noncode).
Synopsis: Medicaid cash and counseling waiver. Requires the office
of Medicaid policy and planning to apply for a Medicaid waiver that
would allow certain Medicaid eligible elderly and disabled persons to
receive a cash allowance or have control of a specific budget so that
they may purchase certain eligible services.
Effective: July 1, 2004.
January 13, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning Medicaid.
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, 2005, 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
implement this SECTION.
(h) This SECTION expires December 31, 2012.