71-5-1416 - Funding to increase access to home and community-based services in the state-funded options program. - Tennessee Statutes

71-5-1416. Funding to increase access to home and community-based services in the state-funded options program.

Subject to the availability of funding, the commissioner shall designate in each year's appropriations bill an amount of money that can be used to increase access to home and community-based services in the state-funded options program for persons who do not qualify for medicaid long-term care services. This funding may be used to provide services such as home-delivered meals, homemaker services and personal care, and to reduce the waiting list for these services under the options program, or to offer transportation services or assistance to non-medicaid-eligible individuals.

[Acts 2008, ch. 1190, § 17.]