Section 321. Eligibility for PACE enrollees

Part IV. Case Management Services

A. The Commonwealth determines eligibility for PACE enrollees under rules applying to institutional groups, and applies posteligibility treatment of income rules to those individuals as specified in subsection B of this section. The posteligibility treatment of income rules specified in this section are the same as those that apply to the Commonwealth's approved Home and Community Based Services waivers.

B. Regular Post Eligibility. As a 209(b) state, the Commonwealth is using more restrictive eligibility requirements than those for Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The Commonwealth is using the posteligibility rules at 42 CFR 435.735. Payment for PACE services is reduced by the amount remaining after deducting the following amounts from the PACE enrollee's income.

1. 42 CFR 435.735: States using more restrictive requirements than SSI.

a. Allowances for the needs of the individual shall be 165% of SSI.

b. Allowance for the needs of the spouse shall not apply.

c. Allowance for the needs of the family shall be the medically needy income standard.

2. Medical and remedial care expenses shall be as specified in 42 CFR 435.735.

C. Spousal Post Eligibility. The Commonwealth uses the posteligibility rules of § 1924 of the Social Security Act (the Act) (spousal impoverishment protection) to determine the individual's contribution toward the cost of PACE services if it determines the individual's eligibility under § 1924 of the Act. There shall be deducted from the individual's monthly income a personal needs allowance (165% of SSI as specified below), and a community spouse's allowance, a family allowance, and an amount for incurred expenses for medical or remedial care, as specified in the State Medicaid plan. Allowances for the needs of the individual shall be 165% of SSI.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 23, Issue 16, eff. July 1, 2007.

Statutory Authority

§§ 32.1-324 and 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia.