Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 46 - Social services.
46.2805 - Definitions; long-term care.

46.2805 Definitions; long-term care. In ss. 46.2805 to 46.2895:
(1) “Care management organization" means an entity that is certified as meeting the requirements for a care management organization under s. 46.284 (3) and that has a contract under s. 46.284 (2). “Care management organization" does not mean an entity that contracts with the department to operate one of the following:
(a) A program of all-inclusive care for the elderly under 42 USC 1395eee or 1396u-4.
(b) A demonstration program known as the Family Care Partnership program under a federal waiver authorized under 42 USC 1396n.
(2) “Eligible person" means a person who meets all eligibility criteria under s. 46.286 (1).
(3) “Enrollee" means a person who is enrolled in a care management organization.
(4) “Family care benefit" means financial assistance for long-term care and support items for an enrollee.
(6m) “Family member" means a spouse or an individual related by blood, marriage, or adoption within the 3rd degree of kinship as computed under s. 990.001 (16).
(6r) “Financial and cost-sharing screening" means a screening to determine financial eligibility under s. 46.286 (1) (b) or the self-directed services option and cost-sharing under s. 46.286 (2) using a uniform tool prescribed by the department.
(6v) “Frail elder" means an individual who is 65 years of age or older and has a physical disability or irreversible dementia that restricts the individual's ability to perform normal daily tasks or that threatens the capacity of the individual to live independently.
(7) “Functional screening" means a screening to determine functional eligibility under s. 46.286 (1) (a) or the self-directed services option using a uniform tool prescribed by the department.
(7r) “Long-term care district" means a special purpose district created under s. 46.2895 (1).
(7u) “Long-term care district board" means the governing board of a long-term care district.
(8) “Nonprofit organization" has the meaning given in s. 108.02 (19).
(9) “Older person" means a person who is at least 65 years of age.
(10) “Resource center" means an entity that meets the standards for operation under s. 46.283 (3) or, if under contract to provide a portion of the services specified under s. 46.283 (3), meets the standards for operation with respect to those services.
(10m) “Self-directed services option" means the program that is operated under a waiver from the secretary of the federal department of health and human services under 42 USC 1396n (c) in which an enrolled individual selects his or her own services and service providers.
(11) “Tribe or band" means a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band.
History: 1999 a. 9, 185; 2003 a. 33; 2007 a. 20, 141; 2009 a. 247; 2019 a. 9.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 46 - Social services.

46.001 - Purposes of chapter.

46.011 - Definitions.

46.014 - Secretary, powers and duties.

46.016 - Cooperation with federal government.

46.017 - Legal actions.

46.018 - Disbursement of funds and facsimile signatures.

46.02 - Agency powers and duties.

46.027 - Contract powers.

46.028 - Electronic benefit transfer.

46.03 - Department, powers and duties.

46.031 - County social service and mental hygiene budget and contract.

46.034 - Authority to establish services integration and coordination pilot programs.

46.035 - Department, additional powers to provide structures, facilities and permanent improvements.

46.036 - Purchase of care and services.

46.04 - Anchorage program.

46.041 - Children's consultation service; establishment; purposes.

46.042 - Treatment program for emotionally disturbed children.

46.043 - Additional services of mental health institutes.

46.044 - State psychiatric institute.

46.047 - State-operated residential facilities and support services.

46.048 - Central Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.

46.055 - Secure mental health facility for sexually violent persons.

46.056 - Wisconsin Resource Center.

46.057 - Mendota juvenile treatment center.

46.058 - Bonds of employees; police powers; investigation of complaints.

46.06 - Lands; condemnation, easements, leases, sales, purchases.

46.064 - Client wages, allowances and release payments.

46.066 - Freedom of worship; religious ministration.

46.07 - Property of patients or residents.

46.09 - Purchases, bills, audits, payments.

46.10 - Cost of care and maintenance, liability; collection and deportation counsel; collections; court actions; recovery.

46.13 - Wassermann tests.

46.14 - Reports of state institutions.

46.15 - Institutions subject to chapter 150.

46.16 - General supervision and inspection by department.

46.17 - County buildings; establishment, approval, inspection.

46.175 - County institutions: minimum standards.

46.18 - Trustees of county institutions.

46.19 - Officers and employees of county institutions.

46.20 - Joint county institutions.

46.205 - County home in adjoining county.

46.206 - Welfare services; supervisory functions of state department.

46.208 - Relief block grants; functions of state department.

46.21 - Institutions and department of human services in populous counties.

46.215 - County department of social services in populous counties.

46.22 - County social services.

46.225 - Indigency determinations.

46.23 - County department of human services.

46.234 - Recovery residences; registration.

46.238 - Infants and unborn children whose mothers abuse controlled substances, controlled substance analogs, or alcohol.

46.245 - Information for certain pregnant women.

46.248 - Reach Out and Read Wisconsin grants.

46.269 - Determining financial eligibility for long-term care programs.

46.271 - Long-term support pilot projects.

46.272 - Children's community options program.

46.275 - Community integration program for residents of state centers.

46.277 - Community integration program for persons relocated or meeting reimbursable levels of care.

46.278 - Community integration program and brain injury waiver program for persons with developmental disabilities.

46.2785 - Community Opportunities and Recovery Program.

46.279 - Restrictions on placements and admissions to intermediate and nursing facilities.

46.28 - Revenue bonding for residential facilities.

46.2804 - Client management of managed care long-term care benefit.

46.2805 - Definitions; long-term care.

46.281 - Powers and duties of the department, secretary, and counties; long-term care.

46.283 - Resource centers.

46.284 - Care management organizations.

46.285 - Operation of resource center and care management organization.

46.286 - Family care benefit.

46.287 - Hearings.

46.288 - Rule-making.

46.2895 - Long-term care district.

46.2896 - Counting promissory notes as assets.

46.2897 - Self-directed services option.

46.2898 - Employment of individuals with disabilities; long-term care programs.

46.2899 - Services for the developmentally disabled who receive post-secondary education.

46.29 - Council on physical disabilities.

46.293 - Specialized programs for the blind and visually impaired.

46.295 - Interpreters for the hearing-impaired.

46.297 - Telecommunication aid for the hearing impaired.

46.298 - Vehicle sticker for the hearing impaired.

46.33 - Employee counseling referral programs.

46.34 - Emission standards for hazardous air contaminants.

46.37 - Certain water and sewerage service in Winnebago County.

46.40 - Community aids funding.

46.45 - Carry-over of community aids funds.

46.47 - Grants for nonnarcotic drug treatment in county jails.

46.48 - Grants for community programs.

46.482 - Coordination of care in substance use overdose.

46.485 - Mental health services for severely emotionally disturbed children.

46.49 - Allocation of federal funds for community aids.

46.495 - Distribution of community aids funds to counties.

46.50 - State mental health authority.

46.52 - Systems change grants.

46.53 - Mental health treatment provider training.

46.535 - Crisis intervention training grants.

46.536 - Crisis program enhancement grants.

46.54 - Consumer and family self-help and peer-support programs.

46.545 - Individual placement and support.

46.55 - Grants for services to persons in treatment.

46.56 - Initiatives to provide coordinated services for children and families.

46.57 - Grants for services to persons with epilepsy.

46.65 - Treatment alternative program.

46.70 - Delivery of services to American Indians.

46.71 - American Indian drug abuse prevention, treatment and education.

46.75 - Food distribution grants.

46.77 - Food distribution administration.

46.80 - Aging.

46.81 - Benefit specialist program.

46.82 - Aging unit.

46.85 - Programs for older individuals.

46.856 - Alzheimer's disease; training and information grants.

46.86 - Treatment programs.

46.87 - Alzheimer's family and caregiver support program.

46.90 - Elder abuse reporting system.

46.94 - Referral system for community-based services.

46.96 - Independent living center grants; independent living services.

46.972 - Primary health for homeless individuals.

46.973 - Drug dependence program.

46.975 - Grant and funding program; services related to alcohol and other drug abuse.

46.977 - Guardianship grants.

46.986 - Respite care program.

46.99 - Medical assistance waiver for Birth to 3 participants.

46.995 - Disabled children's long-term support program; local funding.