Currently procedures relating to the crisis enrollment of eligible person with developmental disabilities in the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver in are included in the Florida Medicaid Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services ...

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES
Agency for Persons with Disabilities

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
65G-6: Crisis Enrollment
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: Currently procedures relating to the crisis enrollment of eligible person with developmental disabilities in the Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver in are included in the Florida Medicaid Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services Coverage & Limitations Handbook, incorporated by reference in Rule 59G-13-080, F.A.C. During the 2006 legislative session (ch. 2006-227, Laws of Florida), Section 393.065, Florida Statutes, was amended to authorize the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to promulgate rules relating to crisis enrollment for waiver services. The purpose of the proposed rule development is to adopt rule providing a procedure for persons with developmental disabilities to be considered for enrollment on a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver if the applicant demonstrates an immediate need for services. The proposed rule development will address procedures for requesting crisis enrollment, the criteria for assessment, and for approving or denying waiver enrollment.
SUBJECT AREA TO BE ADDRESSED: Crisis enrollment on the Florida Supported Living or Developmental Disabilities Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waivers.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 393.501(1), 393.065 FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 20.197(3), 393.065 FS.
A RULE DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: Tuesday, October 17, 2007, 10:00 a.m. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Agency for Health Care Administration’s proposed rule development workshop on Rule 59G-13-080, F.A.C., Home and Community-Based Services, to amend Appendix F of the Florida Medicaid Developmental Disabilities Waiver Services Coverage & Limitations Handbook, to remove the provisions relating to crisis enrollment and provide edits updating the remaining Appendix F provisions.
PLACE: Agency for Health Care Administration, Conference Room A, Building 3, 2727 Mahan Drive, Tallahassee, FL. A second rule development workshop to be held in Orlando, Florida, will be noticed in the next available Florida Administrative Weekly.
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT AND A COPY OF THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT, IF AVAILABLE, IS: Terri McGarrity, Senior Management Analyst Supervisor, Division of Operations, Suite 360, 4030 Esplanade Way, Tallahassee, Florida, 32399-0950; e-mail: [e-mail]

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE.