H. B. 2099
(By Delegates Kominar and Varner)
[Introduced January 10, 2003; referred to the
Committee on Health and Human Resources then Finance.]
A BILL to amend article five, chapter nine of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty,
relating to providing for a pilot project 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 article five, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia,
one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by
adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
§9-5-20. Pilot project to reduce medicaid budget by reducing early
institutionalization.
The department of human services shall develop and implement
during the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, two
thousand three, a pilot program consisting of a project-based
assisted living medicaid waiver to be allocated to the housing
authorities for the cities of Williamson, Wheeling and Moundsville.
The pilot program is intended to divert nursing home admission and
to pay for services for low-income elderly in their licensed
personal care homes. The department may contract directly with the
housing authorities in each of these cities to utilize their
facilities for medicaid eligible residents at high risk for nursing
home placement.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is
to provide for a pilot
project intended to divert low-income residents from early
institutionalization in nursing homes by providing personal home
care in their communities.
The section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.