Bill Text: IN SB0329 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Preadmission screening for nursing homes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-11 - First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services [SB0329 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-SB0329-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 12-10-12.
Synopsis: Preadmission screening for nursing homes. Specifies that
a screening team's identification of an applicant for nursing facility
services as mentally retarded or mentally ill must be based on written
medical documentation that reasonably shows that the individual meets
each component of the federal definitions of the terms. States that
placement in a nursing facility may not be denied if the applicant has
been diagnosed with spina bifida and the applicant's health provider
has provided written documentation that the applicant needs the level
of care provided in a nursing facility.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
January 11, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Health and Provider
Services.
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(b) An individual who is identified by the screening team under section 16 of this chapter as an individual
(1) Community services that would be more appropriate than care in a nursing facility are not actually available.
(2) The cost of appropriate community services would exceed the cost of placement in a nursing facility.
(3) The applicant:
(A) has been determined to be eligible for assistance under the federal Medicaid program (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq.);
(B) needs a service that would make the applicant's placement in a nursing facility inappropriate when the service cannot be provided without the use of a new service made available under a home and community based services waiver approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under 42 U.S.C. 1396n; and
(C) chooses not to receive the service described under clause (B).
(4) The applicant has been diagnosed with spina bifida, and the applicant's health care provider has provided written documentation that the applicant needs the level of care provided in a nursing facility. Denial prohibited under this subdivision includes that an individual cannot be denied placement in a nursing facility that is approved to provide services under Medicaid.
