53-6-402. Community-based long-term care facilities -- powers and duties of department. (1) The department may operate, for persons eligible for medicaid, a program of community-based services as an alternative to long-term care facility services in accordance with the provisions of Title XIX of the Social Security Act, as may be amended.
     (2) The department may conduct long-term care preadmission screenings and resident reviews. Long-term care preadmission screenings and resident reviews are required for all medicaid-eligible persons entering long-term care facilities and community-based services and for all persons who become eligible for medicaid after entering long-term care facilities, before payment for services in such settings are authorized under medicaid. Preadmission screenings and resident review of persons not applying for medical assistance under this part must be on a voluntary basis, except as required under the Social Security Act.
     (3) The department shall annually advise medical doctors and current residents of long-term care facilities of the program provided in subsection (1).
     (4) The department may adopt rules necessary to implement a program of community-based medicaid services and to establish a system of long-term care preadmission screenings and resident reviews as part of that program.

     History: En. Secs. 2 thru 5, Ch. 516, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 711, L. 1989.