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H. B. 2380


(By Delegates Leach, Michael, Perdue and Susman)
[Introduced February 16, 2005; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then Finance.]




A BILL to amend the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20, relating to providing for a program intended to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal home care in their communities.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §9-5-20, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

§9-5-20. Program to reduce medicaid budget by reducing early institutionalization.

The Department of Health and Human Resources shall develop and implement during the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, two thousand five, a program consisting of a project-based assisted living medicaid waiver to be allocated to the housing authorities for the cities of Huntington, Williamson, Wheeling and Moundsville. The purpose of the program is to divert nursing home admissions and to pay for services for low-income seniors in their licensed personal care homes. The program will determine the financial viability of a statewide program for all eligible seniors. The division may contract directly with the housing authorities in each of these cities to use their facilities for medicaid eligible residents at high-risk for nursing home placement.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for a program whose purpose is to divert low-income residents from early institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal home care in their communities. The program will determine the financial viability of a statewide program for all eligible seniors.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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