SB 93 — Revises provisions relating to Medicaid. (BDR 38-193)

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making an appropriation;

Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer Medicaid.

(NRS 422.270) Existing law also requires Medicaid to cover certain home and community-based services for persons with physical disabilities, including supported personal care.

(NRS 422.396) Section 2 of this bill requires the Director of the Department to include in the State Plan for Medicaid authorization for a recipient of Medicaid to directly receive reimbursements for personal care services provided by a personal care assistant or an agency to provide personal care servicesservSection in3 theof homethis andbill paidprovides forthat, byto the recipient.extent possible:

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(f) Has such other powers and duties as are provided by law.

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There is hereby appropriated from the State General Fund to the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department of Health and Human Services to pay the State’s share of the costs of personal care services for recipients of Medicaid under the self-directed model required by section 2 of this act the following sums:

For the Fiscal Year 2021-2022....................................$50,895 For the Fiscal Year 2022-2023..................................$104,354 2.

The sums appropriated by subsection 1 are available for either fiscal year.

Any remaining balance of those sums must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2023, by the entity to which the appropriation is made or any entity to which money from the appropriation is granted or otherwise transferred in any manner, and any portion of the appropriated money remaining must not be spent for any purpose after September 15, 2023, by either the entity to which the money was appropriated or the entity to which the money was subsequently granted or transferred, and must be reverted to the State General Fund on or before September 15, 2023.

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Sections 1, 22, 4 and 44.5 of this act become effective on July 1, 2021.

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