UNOFFICIAL COPY 23 RS BR 1610
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AN ACT relating to Medicaid services. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
ď˘Section 1. KRS 205.203 is amended to read as follows: 3
(1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may provide, within 4
budgetary limitations, for in-home services to the aging to include, but not 5
necessarily limited to: homemaker services; home-help therapy services; day-care 6
services; home-delivered meal services; transportation services; foster care services; 7
and health services. 8
(2) The cabinet is authorized to collect fees for services rendered pursuant to this 9
section in accordance with a fee schedule adopted by the secretary for health and 10
family services. The fee schedule shall take into consideration the ability of the 11
patient or client to pay for the[such] services. Fees shall not be collected from any 12
person who is "needy aged" as defined by KRS 205.010. 13
(3) The secretary may utilize and promote available or potential community resources 14
for the delivery of services to the aging and shall, when he or she deems 15
appropriate, contract for services with local, community, private agencies, and 16
individuals, including relatives of patients and clients, when the[such] services 17
would not otherwise be available without cost. 18
(4) The services to the aging authorized under this section are in addition and 19
supplementary to any services to which the aging may be entitled under any other 20
federal, state, or local governmental law, regulation, or program. 21
(5) The services to the aging authorized under this section shall be designed to meet the 22
needs of the minority elderly as identified by the Cabinet for Health and Family 23
Services pursuant to KRS 205.201. 24