231C.5A - ASSESSMENT OF TENANTS -- PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY.
231C.5A ASSESSMENT OF TENANTS -- PROGRAM
ELIGIBILITY.
An assisted living program receiving reimbursement through the
medical assistance program under chapter 249A shall assist the
department of veterans affairs in identifying, upon admission of a
tenant, the tenant's eligibility for benefits through the United
States department of veterans affairs. The assisted living program
shall also assist the commission of veterans affairs in determining
such eligibility for tenants residing in the program on July 1, 2009.
The department of inspections and appeals, in cooperation with the
department of human services, shall adopt rules to administer this
section, including a provision that ensures that if a tenant is
eligible for benefits through the United States department of
veterans affairs or other third-party payor, the payor of last resort
for reimbursement to the assisted living program is the medical
assistance program. The rules shall also require the assisted living
program to request information from a tenant or tenant's personal
representative regarding the tenant's veteran status and to report to
the department of veterans affairs only the names of tenants
identified as potential veterans along with the names of their
spouses and any dependents. Information reported by the assisted
living program shall be verified by the department of veterans
affairs. Section History: Recent Form
2009 Acts, ch 84, §1