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37.40.1401    HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES FOR ELDERLY AND PHYSICALLY DISABLED PERSONS AUTHORITY AND SCOPE OF PROGRAM

(1) The United States department of health and human services (HHS) has granted the department, through 42 CFR 441.300 through 441.310, the authority to establish a program of medicaid funded home and community-based services for persons who are elderly or who have physical disabilities and who would otherwise have to reside in and receive medicaid reimbursed care in a hospital or nursing facility.

(2) The department, in accordance with state and federal statutes and rules governing the provision of medicaid funded home and community-based services and any federal-state agreements governing the provision of medicaid funded home and community-based services and within the available funding appropriated for the program, may determine within its discretion:

(a) the types of services to be available through the program;

(b) the amount, scope and duration of the services available through the program;

(c) the categories of persons to be served through the program;

(d) the total number of persons who may receive services through the program;

(e) the total number of persons who may receive services through the program by category of eligibility, geographical area or specific case management team; and

(f) eligibility of individual persons for the program.

(3) There is no entitlement to eligibility for the program.

History: Sec. 53-2-201, 53-6-101, 53-6-113 and 53-6-402, MCA; IMP, Sec. 53-2-201, 53-6-101, 53-6-131, 53-6-141 and 53-6-402, MCA; NEW, 1983 MAR p. 863, Eff. 7/15/83; AMD, 1986 MAR p. 2094, Eff. 1/1/87; AMD, 1988 MAR p. 1268, Eff. 7/1/88; AMD, 1991 MAR p. 470, Eff. 12/14/90; TRANS & AMD, from SRS, 2000 MAR p. 2023, Eff. 7/28/00.

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