Bill Text: CT SB00174 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut Senate Bill 174 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Fairness In Medicaid Eligibility Determinations For Home-care Clients.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-17 - Referred by Senate to Committee on Appropriations [SB00174 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2014-SB00174-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 174*
*February Session, 2014*		_____SB00174HS____032114____

AN ACT CONCERNING FAIRNESS IN MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATIONS FOR HOME-CARE CLIENTS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (h) of section 17b-342 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(h) For purposes of this subsection, "penalty period" has the same meaning as provided in section 17b-261q. An individual who is otherwise eligible for services pursuant to this section shall, as a condition of participation in the program, apply for medical assistance benefits pursuant to section 17b-260 when requested to do so by the department and shall accept such benefits if determined eligible. The Commissioner of Social Services, in accordance with 42 CFR 435.915, shall provide payments for Medicaid-eligible services under the medical assistance program retroactive to up to three months before the date an eligible person applied for such assistance, provided such applicant has not made a transfer of assets for less than fair market value in the sixty months before applying. If the applicant has made such a transfer, the commissioner, in accordance with 42 USC 1396p(c)(1)(D)(ii), shall start any penalty period as of the later of (1) the date of the transfer that resulted in the penalty period, or (2) the date an otherwise eligible applicant applied for medical assistance and would have been receiving such assistance but for the imposition of a penalty period.