HB
1822 Medicaid-Buy-In.
Patron -
Harvey B. Morgan
(all
patrons) .....
notes
Summary as introduced:
Medicaid-Buy-In. Requires the Board of Medical Assistance Services to
include in the state plan for medical assistance services a provision to
implement one of the options for a Medicaid Buy-In program pursuant to Section
4733 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 or the Ticket to Work and Work
Incentives Improvement Act of 1999, as soon as practicable and cost effective.
Such option must be designed to provide working persons with disabilities, who,
because of their higher earnings, were not eligible for medical assistance
services in Virginia, with access to coverage under the Virginia medical
assistance services program. The provision for a Medicaid Buy-In must provide
such working persons with disabilities access to this comprehensive health care
when they meet the Board's established income and resource or other eligibility
criteria and upon payment of a premium to participate in the Virginia Medicaid
program. The Board's Medicaid Buy-In provision may consist of a time-limited
demonstration project or such other option as the Board shall determine to be
appropriate for the purposes of removing barriers to work and providing
comprehensive health coverage for disabled persons while assuring the fiscal
integrity of the Commonwealth's medical assistance services program. The Board's
Medicaid Buy-In provision must establish income eligibility, asset and resource
limitations, premium payments, age eligibility, criteria for determining the
level of disability required for participation, and, if feasible, criteria for
providing continued participation upon medical improvement. The Board may
develop a Medicaid Buy-In option, pursuant to this subdivision, during the
implementation of Virginia's federal Medicaid Infrastructure Grant as awarded on
January 1, 2002, for the development of infrastructure, in the form of
improvements in the Commonwealth's Medicaid program, to support employment of
disabled persons or at such other time as, in the Board's opinion, may be more
appropriate.
The bill can be found at
the address below.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?031+sum+HB1822
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