Sec. 17b-365. Assisted living services pilot program. Medicaid waiver program.
Sec. 17b-365. Assisted living services pilot program. Medicaid waiver program. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services may, within available appropriations,
establish and operate a pilot program to allow individuals to receive assisted living
services, provided by an assisted living services agency licensed by the Department of
Public Health in accordance with chapter 368v. In order to be eligible for the program,
an individual shall: (1) Reside in a managed residential community, as defined in section
19a-693; (2) be ineligible to receive assisted living services under any other assisted
living pilot program established by the General Assembly; and (3) be eligible for services
under the Medicaid waiver portion of the Connecticut home-care program for the elderly
established under section 17b-342. The total number of individuals enrolled in said pilot
program, when combined with the total number of individuals enrolled in the pilot
program established pursuant to section 17b-366, shall not exceed seventy-five individuals. The Commissioner of Social Services shall operate said pilot program in accordance
with the Medicaid rules established pursuant to 42 USC 1396p(c), as from time to time
amended.
(b) The pilot program established pursuant to this section may begin operation on
or after January 1, 2003. Not later than January 1, 2005, the Commissioner of Social
Services shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees
of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health, human
services, appropriations and the budgets of state agencies on the pilot program.
(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 27; P.A. 04-258, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2, S. 40.)
History: May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7 effective August 15, 2002; P.A. 04-258 amended Subsec. (a) to provide that the
total number of individuals in pilot program, when combined with the total number of individuals enrolled in pilot program
established pursuant to Sec. 17b-366, shall not exceed 75 individuals and to make technical changes, effective July 1,
2004; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by replacing "by the regulations of the Department of Public Health"
with "in section 19a-693".