HB 16-1195 Summary

• Amends the definition of "home modification services" to cover installations and adaptations related to an eligible person's disability (not solely physical impairment) as permitted by federal law.

• Allows the individual cap on home modification services to reset upon each renewal of the Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver for elderly, blind, and disabled individuals, subject to federal authorization.

• Renames "environmental modification services" to "home modification services" in the HCBS waiver for persons with brain injury and permits the service cap to reset at waiver renewal.

• Applies the same home modification services definition and cap-reset provisions across multiple HCBS waivers including programs for persons with major mental illness and a complementary/alternative medicine pilot program.

• Appropriates $7,950 from the general fund for fiscal year 2016-17 to the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing for Medicaid management information system maintenance and projects, with anticipated federal matching funds of $23,850.