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Senate Bill 53 History
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Senate Bill No. 53
(By Senators Chafin, Weeks, Caldwell, Smith and Minard)
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[Introduced January 14, 2004; referred to the Committee on Health
and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20
, relating to
providing for a pilot project intended to divert low-income
residents from early institutionalization in nursing homes by
providing personal home care in their communities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That
the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20
, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§9-5-20. Pilot project to reduce medicaid budget by reducing early
institutionalization.
The division of human services shall develop and implement
during the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, two
thousand four, a pilot program consisting of a project-based assisted living medicaid waiver to be allocated to the housing
authorities for the cities of Williamson, Wheeling and Moundsville.
The pilot program is intended to divert nursing home admission and
to pay for services for low-income elders in their licensed
personal care homes. The division may contract directly with the
housing authorities in each of these cities to use their facilities
for medicaid eligible residents at high risk for nursing home
placement.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a pilot
project intended to divert low-income residents from early
institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal home
care in their communities.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.