HB 26-1018

HB 26-1018, also known as Long-term Care Services for Nursing Home Residents, is a Colorado law that ensures people leaving nursing homes are automatically considered eligible for Medicaid long-term care services. This means the state and local human or social service departments must arrange these services before someone leaves the nursing home to ensure they have proper support after discharge. The bill also includes penalties for county departments if they fail to set up these services, and for nursing facilities that delay discharges unnecessarily. Since it has been signed into law, this measure is now in effect and aims to provide better care transitions for nursing home residents.

Official Summary

The bill requires an individual being discharged from a nursing facility to be presumptively eligible for long-term services and supports under medicaid.The bill requires the department of health care policy and financing (state department) to determine presumptive eligibility and requires county departments of human or social services (county departments) to set up the long-term services and supports for an individual being discharged from a nursing facility prior to the individual's discharge date.The state department is required to submit an annual report to the state auditor and post the report on the state department's website detailing information about the individuals discharged from a nursing facility and the associated presumptive eligibility determinations.The bill establishes remedial measures against a county department if the county department fails to set up long-term services and supports for the individual. The bill establishes remedial measures against a nursing facility that fails to discharge an individual on the discharge date due to a failure within the nursing facility's control or fails to cooperate in good faith with the state department to ensure long-term care services and supports are in place for the individual.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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