Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act

Bill: 116-s-3220
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2020-01-21
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging

Disability and paralysis

Health care costs and insurance

Health personnel

Home and outpatient care

Hospital care

State and local finance
Latest action: action_date: 2020-01-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-01-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows state Medicaid programs to cover certain home- and community-based services, self-directed personal assistance services, and home- and community-based attendant services that are provided in acute care hospitals. The bill specifies, among other criteria, that such services may not be duplicative of, or serve as a substitute for, necessary or obligatory hospital services. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3220 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 21, 2020 Mr. Portman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to clarify that the provision of home and community-based services is not prohibited in an acute care hospital, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Ensuring Access to Direct Support Professionals Act . 2. Providing home and community-based services in acute care hospitals Section 1902(h) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1396a(h) ) is amended— (1) by inserting (1) after (h) ; (2) by inserting , home and community-based services provided under subsection (c), (d), or (i) of section 1915 or under a waiver under section 1115, self-directed personal assistance services provided pursuant to a written plan of care under section 1915(j), and home and community-based attendant services and supports under section 1915(k) before the period; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (2) Nothing in this title, title XVIII, or title XI shall be construed as prohibiting receipt of any care or services specified in paragraph (1) in an acute care hospital that are— (A) identified in an individual’s person-centered plan of services and supports (or comparable plan of care); (B) provided to meet needs of the individual that are not met through the provision of hospital services; (C) not a substitute for services that the hospital is obligated to provide through its conditions of participation or under Federal or State law; and (D) designed to ensure smooth transitions between acute care settings and home and community-based settings, and to preserve the individual’s functions. .