SF 2227 (LSB 5323SV (1) 85)

SENATE FILE 2227

BY  COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RESOURCES

(SUCCESSOR TO SF 2081)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to exception to policy provisions for Medicaid home and community-based services waivers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  MEDICAID HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICES WAIVERS —— EXCEPTION TO POLICY PROVISIONS.  The department of human services shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A specifying that an individual who is a recipient of home and community-based services waiver services based on an exception to policy shall continue to be eligible for and receive the services granted through the exception to policy request beyond the period specified in the exception to policy, if, at the time of review of the exception to policy and in lieu of submitting a new request, the individual’s primary health care provider submits a confirmation to the department of human services stating that there is little or no probability that the individual’s status upon which the existing exception to policy was granted will significantly change in the period until the next review.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill directs the department of human services to adopt rules specifying that an individual who is a recipient of home and community-based services waiver services based on an exception to policy shall continue to be eligible for and receive the services granted through the exception to policy request beyond the period specified in the exception to policy, if, at the time of review of the exception to policy and in lieu of submitting a new request, the individual’s primary health care provider submits a confirmation to the department of human services stating that there is little or no probability that the individual’s status upon which the existing exception to policy was granted will significantly change in the period until the next review.