Relating to the maximum annual services caps for specified services under certain Medicaid home and community-based services waivers

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedJanuary 20, 2023
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 23, 2023
3. ✓
   Done: House committeeFebruary 9, 2023
4. ✕
   Stopped: Passes the HouseDied when the General Assembly ended
5. Next: Senate committee
6. Next: Passes the Senate
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The General Assembly adjourned on April 19, 2024. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to eliminate the lifetime maximum cap and instead establish and maintain a home and vehicle modifications services annual maximum cap per waiver member year for the Medicaid intellectual disability home and community-based services (HCBS) waiver to reflect the same amount as that for the home and vehicle modifications services annual maximum cap for the Medicaid brain injury HCBS waiver. The department shall continue to require that any such modifications are medically necessary and are subject to prior authorization by HHS.

From the explanation printed with the bill as introduced, written by the Legislative Services Agency. Amendments adopted later aren’t reflected. Full bill text

Fiscal note

Total cost increases in FY 2024 and FY 2025 are summarized in Figure 1. State funding sources would be from General Fund appropriations.

• Home- and Community-Based Services, Intellectual Disability Waiver Modifications · February 16, 2023

Nonpartisan cost estimates from the Legislative Services Agency’s Fiscal Services Division. The newest is first. Reading a fiscal note

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Where this legislation came from and where it went: earlier tries, the versions it moved through this Assembly, and later bills built on it.

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