146.91 Long-term care insurance.
(1) In this section, “long-term care insurance" means insurance that provides coverage both for an extended stay in a nursing home and home health services for a person with a chronic condition. The insurance may also provide coverage for other services that assist the insured person in living outside a nursing home including but not limited to adult day care and continuing care retirement communities.
(2) The department, with the advice of the council on long-term care insurance, the office of the commissioner of insurance, the board on aging and long-term care and the department of employee trust funds, shall design a program that includes the following:
(a) Subsidizing premiums for persons purchasing long-term care insurance, based on the purchasers' ability to pay.
(b) Reinsuring by the state of policies issued in this state by long-term care insurers.
(3) The department shall collect any data on health care costs and utilization that the department determines to be necessary to design the program under sub. (2).
(6) The department, with the advice of the council on long-term care insurance, may examine use of tax incentives for the sale and purchase of long-term care insurance.
History: 1987 a. 27; 1989 a. 56; 2007 a. 20.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 146 - Miscellaneous health provisions.
146.0255 - Testing infants for controlled substances or controlled substance analogs.
146.0257 - Evaluation of infants for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
146.085 - Pay toilets prohibited.
146.22 - Flushing devices for urinals.
146.25 - Required implanting of microchip prohibited.
146.29 - Access to toilet facility in retail establishment.
146.31 - Blood or tissue transfer services.
146.34 - Donation of bone marrow by a minor.
146.343 - Donation of newborn umbilical cord blood.
146.345 - Sale of human organs prohibited.
146.348 - Reimbursement in cancer clinical trial programs.
146.35 - Female genital mutilation prohibited.
146.37 - Health care services review; civil immunity.
146.38 - Health care services review; confidentiality of information.
146.40 - Instructional programs for nurse aides; reporting client abuse.
146.60 - Notice of release of genetically engineered organisms into the environment.
146.615 - Advanced practice clinician training grants.
146.616 - Allied health professional education and training grants.
146.618 - Treatment program grants.
146.62 - Rural hospital loan program.
146.63 - Grants to establish graduate medical training programs.
146.64 - Grants to support graduate medical training programs.
146.65 - Rural health dental clinics.
146.66 - Low-income dental clinics.
146.68 - Grant for colposcopies and other services.
146.71 - Determination of death.
146.81 - Health care records; definitions.
146.815 - Contents of certain patient health care records.
146.816 - Uses and disclosures of protected health information.
146.817 - Preservation of fetal monitor tracings and microfilm copies.
146.819 - Preservation or destruction of patient health care records.
146.82 - Confidentiality of patient health care records.
146.83 - Access to patient health care records.
146.835 - Parents denied physical placement rights.
146.84 - Violations related to patient health care records.
146.87 - Federal registration numbers for prescribers of controlled substances.
146.89 - Volunteer health care provider program.
146.903 - Disclosures required of health care providers and hospitals.
146.905 - Reduction in fees prohibited.
146.91 - Long-term care insurance.