Section 161-I:4 Department Responsibilities. - New Hampshire Statutes

   I. The department shall develop personal care services for department programs that authorize personal care services. Eligible consumers shall be afforded the option to receive their personal care services through a home health agency or other qualified agency and/or a consumer-directed services program.
   II. The department shall develop a process for allowing a representative to act on the behalf of an eligible consumer.
   III. The department shall develop intermediary services for eligible consumers using consumer-directed services.
   IV. Coverage of personal care services under department programs shall be subject to the availability of appropriated funds.
   V. Nothing in this section shall be construed to change the personal care program for the severely disabled as set forth in RSA 161-E.
   VI. Beginning September 2000, the department shall provide a quarterly report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives relative to the number of clients served and expenditures under the home and community-based care waiver for the elderly and chronically ill, and beginning in December 2000 an annual report on such qualitative measures on the care delivered as the department deems appropriate.

Source. 2000, 255:1, eff. June 12, 2000.