SECTION 10.9E.(a) The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Medical Assistance, shall develop and submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services an application for a home and community based services program under Medicaid State Plan 1915(i) authority for elderly individuals who (i) are typically served in special care and memory care units that meet the criteria of the State County Special Assistance Program and (ii) have been diagnosed with a progressive, degenerative, irreversible disease that attacks the brain and results in impaired memory, thinking, and behavior. The home and community based services program developed by the Department pursuant to this section shall focus on providing these elderly individuals with personal care services necessary to ameliorate the effects of gradual memory loss, impaired judgment, disorientation, personality change, difficulty in learning, and loss of language skills.
