TITLE 40

Human services

CHAPTER 40-8.9

Medical Assistance – Long-Term Care Service and Finance Reform

SECTION 40-8.9-6



   § 40-8.9-6  Reporting. –

Annual reports showing progress in long-term care system reform and rebalancing

shall be submitted by April 1st of each year by the department to the Joint

Legislative Committee on Health Care Oversight as well as the finance

committees of both the senate and the house of representatives and shall

include: the number of persons aged sixty-five (65) years and over and adults

with disabilities served in nursing facilities, the number of persons

transitioned from nursing homes to Medicaid supported home and community based

care, the number of persons aged sixty-five (65) years and over and adults with

disabilities served in home and community care to include home care, adult day

services, assisted living and shared living, the dollar amounts and percent of

expenditures spent on nursing facility care and home and community-based care,

and estimates of the continued investments necessary to provide stability to

the existing system and establish the infrastructure and programs required to

achieve system-wide reform and the targeted goal of spending fifty percent

(50%) of Medicaid long-term care dollars on nursing facility care and fifty

percent (50%) on home and community-based services.



History of Section.

(P.L. 2006, ch. 263, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 286, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch.

223, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 239, § 5.)