TN - Restructure Long-Term Care Programs (2008)

The bill will expand access to home and community-based services for low-income elderly and disabled adults with Medicaid (TennCare in Tennessee).? The bill will restructure the long-term care system, reallocating funding from nursing home care to home and community-based services, streamlining the approval process for those services, and providing the services to 2,300 additional Medicaid recipients.?

State Tennessee

Bill Number S.B. 4181

Date of Introduction 1/31/2008

Latest Activity Enacted 6/17/2008

More Info http://www.capitol.tn.gov/

Topic: Home and Community-Based Services