Sec. 17b-370. Demonstration project to provide home and community-based long-term care services. Development of plan. Implementation.
Sec. 17b-370. Demonstration project to provide home and community-based
long-term care services. Development of plan. Implementation. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall develop a plan to establish and administer a demonstration
project to provide home and community-based long-term care services for persons who
are eighteen years of age or older, who are institutionalized or at risk of institutionalization, and who meet the financial and level of care eligibility criteria established in regulations adopted for the Connecticut home-care program for the elderly pursuant to section
17b-342. Services provided under the demonstration project shall be modeled after services provided under the Money Follows the Person demonstration project pursuant to
section 17b-369.
(b) The plan developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall detail the
structure of the demonstration project, persons served, services to be provided and how
they will be provided. The plan shall include a timetable for implementation of the
demonstration project on or after July 1, 2009. The plan shall ensure that the demonstration project includes, but is not limited to, the provision of the following services through
a Medicaid state plan amendment, a new Medicaid waiver or modification of an existing
home and community-based Medicaid waiver: Personal care assistance services,
twenty-four-hour care, occupational therapy, homemaker services, companion services,
meals on wheels, adult day care, transportation, mental health counseling, care management, elderly foster care, minor home modifications, assistive technology and assisted
living services. The plan shall ensure that a person participating in the demonstration
project receives the level of care and services appropriate to maintain such person in
such person's home or community.
(c) The plan shall identify (1) any federal Medicaid waivers or state Medicaid plan
amendments necessary to implement the demonstration project, and (2) any costs or
savings associated with such project. In developing the plan for the demonstration project, the commissioner shall consider the consolidation of existing waivers, demonstration projects and state-funded programs to promote the efficient administration of such
other programs and the demonstration project developed under this section.
(d) Not later than January 1, 2009, the commissioner shall submit, in accordance
with section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having
cognizance of matters relating to human services and appropriations and the budgets of
state agencies the plan developed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section along with
recommendations for legislation and funding necessary to implement the plan. Not later
than sixty days after the date of receipt of such plan, said joint standing committees
of the General Assembly shall advise the commissioner of their approval, denial or
modifications, if any, of the plan, and if such plan is approved by said committees, such
plan shall be implemented on or after July 1, 2009, subject to available appropriations.
(P.A. 08-180, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 08-180 effective July 1, 2008.