Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 74.39A - Long-Term Care Services Options—Expansion.
74.39A.120 - Chore services—Expenditure limitation—Priorities—Rule on patient resource limit.

RCW 74.39A.120
Chore services—Expenditure limitation—Priorities—Rule on patient resource limit.

(1) The department shall establish a monthly dollar lid for each region on chore services expenditures within the legislative appropriation. Priority for services shall be given to the following situations:
(a) People who were receiving chore personal care services as of June 30, 1995;
(b) People for whom chore personal care services are necessary to return to the community from a nursing home;
(c) People for whom chore personal care services are necessary to prevent unnecessary nursing home placement; and
(d) People for whom chore personal care services are necessary as a protective measure based on referrals resulting from an adult protective services investigation.
(2) The department shall require a client to participate in the cost of chore services as a necessary precondition to receiving chore services paid for by the state. The client shall retain an amount equal to one hundred percent of the federal poverty level, adjusted for household size, for maintenance needs. The department shall consider the remaining income as the client participation amount for chore services except for those persons whose participation is established under *RCW 74.08.570.
(3) The department shall establish, by rule, the maximum amount of resources a person may retain and be eligible for chore services.

[ 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 § 37.]
NOTES:

*Reviser's note: RCW 74.08.570 was recodified as RCW 74.39A.150 pursuant to 1995 1st sp.s. c 18 § 34.


Conflict with federal requirements—Severability—Effective date—1995 1st sp.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 74.39A.030.

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Revised Code of Washington

Title 74 - Public Assistance

Chapter 74.39A - Long-Term Care Services Options—Expansion.

74.39A.005 - Findings.

74.39A.007 - Purpose and intent.

74.39A.009 - Definitions.

74.39A.010 - Assisted living services and enhanced adult residential care—Contracts—Rules.

74.39A.020 - Adult residential care—Contracts—Rules.

74.39A.030 - Expansion of home and community services—Payment rates.

74.39A.032 - Medicaid payment methodology for certain contracted assisted living facilities—Established by rule—Required components.

74.39A.035 - Expansion of nutrition services through the meals on wheels program.

74.39A.040 - Department assessment of and assistance to hospital patients in need of long-term care.

74.39A.051 - Quality improvement principles.

74.39A.056 - Background checks on long-term care workers.

74.39A.058 - Long-term care workforce work group.

74.39A.060 - Toll-free telephone number for complaints—Investigation and referral—Rules—Discrimination or retaliation prohibited.

74.39A.070 - Rules for qualifications and training requirements—Requirement that contractors comply with federal and state regulations.

74.39A.074 - Training requirements for long-term care workers—Rules.

74.39A.076 - Training requirements for individual providers caring for family members.

74.39A.078 - Rules for the approval of curricula for facility-based caregivers serving persons with behavioral health needs and geriatric behavioral health workers—Curricula requirements.

74.39A.080 - Department authority to take actions in response to noncompliance or violations.

74.39A.086 - Enforcement actions against persons not certified as home care aides and their employers—Rule-making authority.

74.39A.090 - Discharge planning—Contracts for case management services and reassessment and reauthorization—Assessment of case management roles and quality of in-home care services—Plan of care model language.

74.39A.095 - Case management services—Contractual requirements—Consumers' plans of care—Notification to consumer directed employer.

74.39A.100 - Chore services—Legislative finding, intent.

74.39A.110 - Chore services—Legislative policy and intent regarding available funds—Levels of service.

74.39A.120 - Chore services—Expenditure limitation—Priorities—Rule on patient resource limit.

74.39A.130 - Chore services—Department to develop program.

74.39A.140 - Chore services—Employment of public assistance recipients.

74.39A.150 - Chore services for persons with disabilities—Eligibility.

74.39A.155 - Support for persons at risk of institutional placement.

74.39A.160 - Transfer of assets—Penalties.

74.39A.170 - Recovery of payments—Transfer of assets rules for eligibility—Disclosure of estate recovery costs, terms, and conditions.

74.39A.180 - Authority to pay for probate actions and collection of bad debts.

74.39A.200 - Training curricula, materials—In public domain—Exceptions.

74.39A.210 - Disclosure of employee information—Employer immunity—Rebuttable presumption.

74.39A.240 - Definitions.

74.39A.250 - Individual provider referral registry—Consumer directed employer duties—Department duties.

74.39A.261 - Background checks on individual providers—Department duties.

74.39A.270 - Individual providers contracted with the department—Collective bargaining—Circumstances in which individual providers are considered public employees—Exceptions—Limitations.

74.39A.275 - Individual provider overtime—Annual expenditure reports to legislature and joint legislative-executive overtime oversight task force.

74.39A.300 - Funding process—Department-contracted individual providers.

74.39A.310 - Contract for individual home care services providers—Cost of change in wages and benefits funded or increase in labor rates.

74.39A.320 - Establishment of capital add-on rate—Determination of medicaid occupancy percentage.

74.39A.326 - In-home personal care or respite services to family members—Department not authorized to pay—Exceptions—Enforcement—Rules.

74.39A.331 - Peer mentoring.

74.39A.341 - Continuing education requirements for long-term care workers.

74.39A.351 - Advanced training.

74.39A.360 - Training partnership.

74.39A.370 - Addressing long-term care complaint workload.

74.39A.380 - Internal quality review and accountability program for residential care services—Quality assurance panel—Report.

74.39A.390 - Personal care services—Glove access.

74.39A.400 - Personal care services—Community first choice option.

74.39A.500 - Consumer directed employer program—Establishment—Structure—Vendor qualifications—Transition—Department duties.

74.39A.505 - Consumer directed employer program—Rule-making authority—2018 c 278.

74.39A.510 - Consumer directed employer program—Limitations.

74.39A.515 - Duties of consumer directed employers that employ individual providers—Case management responsibilities—Rule making.

74.39A.520 - Individual providers employed by a consumer directed employer—Consumer's right to select, schedule, supervise, or dismiss individual providers.

74.39A.525 - Overtime criteria—Department-contracted individual providers—Individual providers employed by a consumer directed employer—Rule making—Expenditure reports—Joint legislative-executive overtime oversight task force.

74.39A.530 - Consumer directed employer program—Labor and administrative rates—Rate-setting board—Funding process.

74.39A.800 - Changes to agreements—Performance of duties.

74.39A.900 - Section captions—1993 c 508.

74.39A.901 - Conflict with federal requirements.

74.39A.903 - Effective date—1993 c 508.