Sponsor(S) HOUSE HEALTH, EDUCATION & SOCIAL SERVICES
Title "An Act establishing new eligibility for medical assistance for certain disabled persons and giving their eligibility for services the highest priority among optional services and groups under the medical assistance program; amending the definition of 'personal care services in a recipient's home' as used in the medical assistance program; moving midwife services from being the first to being the seventh service eliminated under the medical assistance program when there is insufficient funding; adjusting the priority of optional services and optional eligible groups under the medical assistance program in order to reflect the new priorities given to the newly-eligible disabled persons and to midwife services but without otherwise changing the relative order of the other optional services and optional groups; relating to catastrophic illness assistance; establishing a medical assistance program for chronic and acute medical conditions; and providing for an effective date."
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