Title: Priority Enrollment for Medicaid Home and Community-based Services

Summary: Adds specified individuals to list of those who are afforded priority enrollment for Medicaid home & community-based services through long-term care managed care program & do not have to complete screening or wait-list process.

Full Text:
An act relating to priority enrollment for Medicaid home and community-based services; amending s. 409.979, F.S.; adding specified individuals to the list of those who are afforded priority enrollment for Medicaid home and community-based services through the long-term care managed care program under certain circumstances; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florid a: Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (3) of section 409.979, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 409.979 Eligibility.-(3) WAIT LIST, RELEASE, AND OFFER PROCESS.-The Department of Elderly Affairs shall maintain a statewide wait list for enrollment for home and community-based services through the long-term care managed care program. (f) Notwithstanding this subsection, the following individuals are afforded priority enrollment for home and community-based services through the long-term car emanaged care program and do not have to complete the screening or wait-list process if all other long-term care managed care program eligibility requirements are met: 1. An individual who is 18, 19, or years of age who has HB 2024 a chronic debilitating dis ease or condition of one or more physiological or organ systems which generally make the individual dependent upon-hour-per-day medical, nursing, or health supervision or intervention. 2. A nursing facility resident who requests to transition into the community and who has resided in a Florida-licensed skilled nursing facility for at least consecutive days. 3. An individual who is referred by the Department of Children and Families pursuant to the Adult Protective Services Act, ss. 415.101-415.113, as high risk and who is placed in an assisted living facility temporarily funded by the Department of Children and Families. 4. An individual who has resided in a licensed assisted living facility in this state for at least months, or for 39 days fol lowing referral by the Department of Children and Families, and who requires assistance with two or more activities of daily living. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.