Increasing patient access rights to timely and appropriate postacute care.
Summary
Requires the Department of Social and Health Services (Department) to complete assessments for eligibility for long-term services and supports through Medicaid within 20 days.
Allows patients, clients, health care providers, hospitals, facilities, and Department case managers to submit requests for additional personal care services through the Department's Exception to Rule Committee.
Requires several state agencies to conduct reviews on the Department's method for determining staffing levels for assessing eligibility for home and community-based services, and barriers to accessing community alternatives for patients in hospital settings.
Directs the Health Care Authority and the Department to submit a waiver to the federal government to authorize presumptive eligibility for long-term services and supports.
From the Second Substitute House Bill Report (2SSB 6275), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed Senate, stalled in House
AN ACT Relating to increasing patient access rights to timely and appropriate postacute care by addressing the medicaid functional assessment and financial eligibility process for medicaid funded long-term services and supports;