2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 205 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE 205.617 Expansion of Medicaid coverage for screening and treatment of breast or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions -- Short title.
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205.617 Expansion of Medicaid coverage for screening and treatment of
breast or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions -- Short title.
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The Department for Medicaid Services shall expand Medicaid coverage to offer
benefits to uninsured women who:
(a) Are under age sixty-five (65);
(b) Are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid;
(c) Have been screened for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous
conditions, or any combination of these conditions, through the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and Cervical Cancer
Early Detection Program or through the Department for Public Health's
Women's Cancer Screening Program;
(d) Are in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous
conditions, or any combination of these conditions, as a result of a
diagnosis of those conditions in a program identified in paragraph (c) of
this subsection;
(e) Are not otherwise covered under creditable coverage, as defined in 42
U.S.C. sec. 300gg(c); and
(f) Meet any other eligibility-required criteria established under the Federal
Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000.
No later than three (3) months after April 10, 2008, the department shall submit
to the secretary of the United States Department for Health and Human
Services a request for approval of a plan amendment to extend coverage as
authorized under subsection (1) of this section.
Within three (3) months following receipt of federal approval of a plan
amendment, the department shall promulgate administrative regulations in
accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement the requirements of this
section. If federal approval has not been received within six (6) months after
April 10, 2008, for the plan amendment, the department shall report the status
of the request for approval and the steps being taken by the department to
secure federal approval.
Medical assistance provided under the plan amendment shall be limited to
medical assistance provided during the period in which a woman who meets
the requirements of subsection (1) of this section requires treatment for breast
or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions, or any combination of these
conditions. In the case of any covered woman whose medical assistance has
been terminated due to a cure or remission of a condition diagnosed under
subsection (1)(c) of this section, medical assistance shall be reinstituted for any
subsequent periods of recurrence or metastasis or any future conditions
establishing eligibility under subsection (1) of this section.
This section shall be known as the Kentucky Breast and Cervical Cancer
Treatment Act of 2008.
Effective:April 10, 2008
History: Created 2008 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 1, effective April 10, 2008.
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