WSR 99-03-104
PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
DEPARTMENT OF
SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES
(Medical Assistance Administration)
[Filed January 20, 1999, 11:23 a.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Infusion, parenteral, and enteral therapies for Medicaid and medical assistance clients; limitations on those services; and requirements for providers of those services.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 74.08.090 and 74.09.530.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Infusion, parenteral, and enteral therapies provide medically necessary nutrition to Medicaid and medical assistance clients who are not able to feed or be fed orally. These rules will describe infusion, parenteral, and enteral benefits; limitations, including authorizations, to avoid medically unnecessary use of these benefits; and requirements placed on providers to ensure appropriate, medically necessary use.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: None.
Process for Developing New Rule: The department invites the interested public to review and provide input on the draft language of this WAC. Draft material and information about how to participate are available by contacting the DSHS representative identified below.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Ann Myers, Program Assistance and Support Services, Medical Assistance Administration, Olympia, WA 98504-5530, phone (360) 586-2337, fax (360) 753-7315, TTY 1 (800) 848-5429, e-mail myersea@dshs.wa.gov.
January 20, 1999
Marie Myerchin-Redifer, Manager
Rules and Policies Assistance Unit