TITLE 40
Human services
CHAPTER 40-8.9
Medical Assistance Long-Term Care Service and Finance Reform
SECTION 40-8.9-6
§ 40-8.9-6 Reporting.
Annual reports showing progress in long-term care system reform and rebalancing
shall be submitted by April 1st of each year by the department to the Joint
Legislative Committee on Health Care Oversight as well as the finance
committees of both the senate and the house of representatives and shall
include: the number of persons aged sixty-five (65) years and over and adults
with disabilities served in nursing facilities, the number of persons
transitioned from nursing homes to Medicaid supported home and community based
care, the number of persons aged sixty-five (65) years and over and adults with
disabilities served in home and community care to include home care, adult day
services, assisted living and shared living, the dollar amounts and percent of
expenditures spent on nursing facility care and home and community-based care,
and estimates of the continued investments necessary to provide stability to
the existing system and establish the infrastructure and programs required to
achieve system-wide reform and the targeted goal of spending fifty percent
(50%) of Medicaid long-term care dollars on nursing facility care and fifty
percent (50%) on home and community-based services.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2006, ch. 263, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 286, § 1; P.L. 2009, ch.
223, § 1; P.L. 2010, ch. 239, § 5.)