CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1536

 

 

                   Chapter 119, Laws of 1991

 

 

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

 

 

                  HOSPICE SERVICES‑-EXTENSION

 

 

                    EFFECTIVE DATE:  5/9/91

 

 


Passed by the House March 14, 1991

  Yeas 96   Nays 0

 

 

              JOE KING             

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 10, 1991

  Yeas 43   Nays 0

 

 

           JOEL PRITCHARD          

President of the Senate

 

 

Approved May 9, 1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           BOOTH GARDNER           

Governor of the State of Washington


       CERTIFICATE

 

I, Alan Thompson, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1536 as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

            ALAN THOMPSON             Chief Clerk

 

 

                                     FILED         

 

 

 

                  May 9, 1991 - 11:58 a.m.

 

 

 

                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington  



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                                  HOUSE BILL 1536

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                             AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

 

 

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Anderson, Moyer, Sprenkle, Paris, Wynne, Jacobsen and Winsley.

 

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Appropriations.Continuing hospice services an additional two years for medical assistance recipients.


     AN ACT Relating to hospice benefits; reenacting and amending RCW 74.09.520; and declaring an emergency.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 74.09.520 and 1990 c 33 s 594 and 1990 c 25 s 1 are each reenacted and amended to read as follows:

     (1) The term "medical assistance" may include the following care and services:  (a) Inpatient hospital services; (b) outpatient hospital services; (c) other laboratory and x‑ray services; (d) skilled nursing home services; (e) physicians' services, which shall include prescribed medication and instruction on birth control devices; (f) medical care, or any other type of remedial care as may be established by the secretary; (g) home health care services; (h) private duty nursing services; (i) dental services; (j) physical therapy and related services; (k) prescribed drugs, dentures, and prosthetic devices; and eyeglasses prescribed by a physician skilled in diseases of the eye or by an optometrist, whichever the individual may select; (l) personal care services, as provided in this section; (m) hospice services; (n) other diagnostic, screening, preventive, and rehabilitative services; and (o) like services when furnished to a handicapped child by a school district as part of an individualized education program established pursuant to RCW 28A.155.010 through 28A.155.100.  For the purposes of this section, the department may not cut off any prescription medications, oxygen supplies, respiratory services, or other life‑ sustaining medical services or supplies.

     "Medical assistance," notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall not include routine foot care, or dental services delivered by any health care provider, that are not mandated by Title XIX of the social security act unless there is a specific appropriation for these services. Services included in an individualized education program for a handicapped child under RCW 28A.155.010 through 28A.155.100 shall not qualify as medical assistance prior to the implementation of the funding process developed under RCW 74.09.524.

     (2) The department shall amend the state plan for medical assistance under Title XIX of the federal social security act to include personal care services, as defined in 42 C.F.R. 440.170(f), in the categorically needy program.

     (3) The department shall adopt, amend, or rescind such administrative rules as are necessary to ensure that Title XIX personal care services are provided to eligible persons in conformance with federal regulations.

     (a) These administrative rules shall include financial eligibility indexed according to the requirements of the social security act providing for medicaid eligibility.

     (b) The rules shall require clients be assessed as having a medical condition requiring assistance with personal care tasks.  Plans of care must be approved by a physician and reviewed by a nurse every ninety days.

     (4) The department shall design and implement a means to assess the level of functional disability of persons eligible for personal care services under this section.  The personal care services benefit shall be provided to the extent funding is available according to the assessed level of functional disability.  Any reductions in services made necessary for funding reasons should be accomplished in a manner that assures that priority for maintaining services is given to persons with the greatest need as determined by the assessment of functional disability.

     (5) The department shall report to the appropriate fiscal committees of the legislature on the utilization and associated costs of the personal care option under Title XIX of the federal social security act, as defined in 42 C.F.R. 440.170(f), in the categorically needy program.  This report shall be submitted by January 1, 1990, and submitted on a yearly basis thereafter.

     (6) Effective July 1, 1989, the department shall offer hospice services in accordance with available funds.  ((The department shall provide a complete accounting of the costs of providing hospice services under this section by December 20, 1990.  The report shall include an assessment of cost savings which may result by providing hospice to persons who otherwise would use hospitals, nursing homes, or more expensive care.))  The hospice benefit under this section shall terminate on June 30, ((1991)) 1993, unless extended by the legislature.

 

     NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.      This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect immediately.


     Passed the House March 14, 1991.

     Passed the Senate April 10, 1991.

Approved by the Governor May 9, 1991.

     Filed in Office of Secretary of State May 9, 1991.