(305 ILCS 5/5-5a) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-5a)
Sec. 5-5a. Waiver for home and community-based services. The Department
shall apply for a waiver from the United States Health Care Financing
Administration to allow payment for home and community-based services under
this Article.
The Department, in cooperation with the Department on Aging, the Department
of Human Services and any other relevant State, local or
federal
government agency, may establish a nursing home pre-screening program to
determine whether the applicant, eligible for medical assistance under this
Article, may use home and community-based services as a reasonable,
lower-cost alternative form of care. For the purpose of this Section,
"home and community-based services" may include, but are not limited to,
those services provided under subsection (f) of Section 3 of the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act and Section 4 of the Illinois Act on the Aging.
(Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15.)
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