2005 Connecticut Code - 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 by the
regulations of the Department of Public Health; (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.
(May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-7, S. 27; P.A. 04-258, S. 5.)
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 seventy-five individuals and to make technical changes, effective July 1, 2004.
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