2009 Connecticut Code
Title 17b Social Services
Chapter 319v Medical Assistance
Sec. 17b-265c. Medicaid and Medicare dually eligible pilot program.

      Sec. 17b-265c. Medicaid and Medicare dually eligible pilot program. The Commissioner of Social Services, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall amend the Medicaid state plan to establish a pilot program serving not more than five hundred elderly or disabled state medical assistance recipients who are also eligible for Medicare and who voluntarily opt to participate in the program. Such program shall demonstrate the feasibility and cost effectiveness of delivering comprehensive health insurance coverage in a managed care setting to such recipients. The commissioner may include medical assistance services in the pilot program not presently covered in the state medical assistance program or other modifications to the state medical assistance program to encourage voluntary participation in the pilot program.

      (P.A. 04-258, S. 4.)

      History: P.A. 04-258 effective June 1, 2004.