CHAPTER 33
HB 461-FN – FINAL VERSION
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2014 SESSION
01/10
HOUSE BILL 461-FN
AN ACT relative to long-term care services.
SPONSORS: Rep. Donovan, Sull 4
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill clarifies long-term care eligibility for the purpose of receiving Medicaid-funded nursing home services.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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5Mar2014… 0426h
13-0756
01/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to long-term care services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
33:1 New Paragraph; Long-Term Care; Eligibility. Amend RSA 151-E:3 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. Subject to written approval by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, financial eligibility rules in paragraph II shall include eligibility if the person’s countable income is at or below the nursing facility special income standard, as defined in 42 C.F.R. 435.236, for the Medicaid program or the person incurs allowable medical expenses each month, including the anticipated cost of waiver services, which when deducted from the individual’s income would reduce the individual’s income to an amount that is no higher than the nursing facility special income standard. The department shall submit a request for such approval within 30 days of the effective date of this paragraph.
33:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: May 27, 2014
Effective Date: May 27, 2014