Bill Text: NJ A4518 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DHS to set reimbursement rates for owners or operators of group homes providing individual support services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee [A4518 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-A4518-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman ANTWAN L. MCCLELLAN
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
SYNOPSIS
Requires DHS to set reimbursement rates for owners or operators of group homes providing individual support services to certain persons with developmental disabilities.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning group homes for persons with developmental disabilities and supplementing Title 30 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Department of Human Services shall reimburse an owner or operator of a group home providing individual support services to a person with developmental disabilities residing at the group home at the full reimbursement rate for the provision of such services for a period of 60 days, if the person has been transferred to another facility for medical, psychiatric, or rehabilitative treatment services.
If the person is not transferred back to the group home where the person resides within the 60 day period, the department shall reimburse the owner or operator of the group home at 50 percent of the reimbursement rate for the provision of individual support services to the person for an additional 120 day period.
b. If the person with developmental disabilities who has been transferred to another facility for treatment services pursuant to subsection a. of this section cannot return to the group home where the person resides within six months of the transfer, the owner or operator of the group home may begin the process to discharge the person from the group home pursuant to the provisions of N.J.A.C.10:44A-4.2.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Department of Human Services (DHS) to reimburse an owner or operator of a group home providing individual support services to a person with developmental disabilities residing at the group home at the full reimbursement rate for the provision of such services for a period of 60 days, if the person has been transferred to another facility for medical, psychiatric, or rehabilitative treatment services.
Under the bill's provisions, if the person is not transferred back to the group home within the 60 day period, the DHS shall reimburse the owner or operator of the group home at 50 percent of the reimbursement rate for the provision of individual support services to the person for an additional 120 day period.
If the person with developmental disabilities who has been transferred to another facility for treatment services cannot return to the group home where the person resides within six months of the transfer, the owner or operator of the group home may begin the process to discharge the person from the group home pursuant to the provisions of N.J.A.C.10:44A-4.2.
