205.617 Expansion of Medicaid coverage for screening and treatment of breast or
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cervical cancer or precancerous conditions -- Short title.
(1)The Department for Medicaid Services shall expand Medicaid coverage to offer
benefits to uninsured women who:
(a)Are under age sixty-five (65);
(b)Are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid;
(c)Have been screened for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions,
or any combination of these conditions, through the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program or through the Department for Public Health's Women's Cancer
Screening Program;
(d)Are in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous
conditions, or any combination of these conditions, as a result of a diagnosis
of those conditions in a program identified in paragraph
(c)of this subsection;
(e)Are not otherwise covered under creditable coverage, as defined in 42 U.S.C.
sec. 300gg(c); and
(f)Meet any other eligibility-required criteria established under the Federal
Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000.
(2)No later than three
(3)months after April 10, 2008, the department shall submit to
the secretary of the United States Department for Health and Human Services a
request for approval of a plan amendment to extend coverage as authorized under
subsection
(1)of this section.
(3)Within three
(3)months following receipt of federal approval of a plan amendment,
the department shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS
Chapter 13A to implement the requirements of this section. If federal approval has
not been received within six
(6)months after April 10, 2008, for the plan
amendment, the department shall report the status of the request for approval and
the steps being taken by the department to secure federal approval.
(4)Medical assistance provided under the plan amendment shall be limited to medical
assistance provided during the period in which a woman who meets the
requirements of subsection
(1)of this section requires treatment for breast or
cervical cancer or precancerous conditions, or any combination of these conditions.
In the case of any covered woman whose medical assistance has been terminated
due to a cure or remission of a condition diagnosed under subsection (1)(c) of this
section, medical assistance shall be reinstituted for any subsequent periods of
recurrence or metastasis or any future conditions establishing eligibility under
subsection
(1)of this section.
(5)This section shall be known as the Kentucky Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment
Act of 2008.