(1) A program to provide home- and community-based services to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities who are in need of the level of care available in an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities is hereby established pursuant to the federal "Social Security Act", as amended. This program shall provide for the social, habilitative, remedial, residential, health, and other needs of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities to avoid placement in an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
Services for persons with developmental disabilities provided through this programshall be delivered under the provisions of a statewide services plan, in the form of home- and community-based services waivers or model waivers, developed by the state department and the department of human services and approved by the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services, or any successor agency. This plan shall include the specific services to be offered, a plan for the delivery of such services through community centered boards or other service agencies approved pursuant to article 10.5 of title 27, C.R.S., utilizing where appropriate the provision of in-home services, the expected costs of such services, the expected benefits of providing those services, and the administrative provisions which shall govern the implementation of the plan. The plan shall provide for all necessary safeguards to ensure the health and welfare of any eligible persons. The average per capita expenditure for services under this plan shall not exceed the average per capita expenditure the department of human services or the state department would have made for services otherwise available without this plan.
The plan shall utilize existing community-based services programs to the maximumextent possible and shall coordinate all available forms of assistance for the eligible person.
Any services for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities providedthrough this program shall be set forth in a plan of care developed and managed by a community-centered board and subject to review and approval pursuant to section 25.5-6-404.
The plan of care shall:
Be based on the particular services needs of the eligible person;
Describe the services necessary to avoid institutionalization; and
(I) Include a process by which the person who is receiving services may receivenecessary care for medical purposes, which may include respite care, if the person's service provider is unavailable due to an emergency situation or to unforeseen circumstances. The person who is receiving services and the person's family or guardian shall be duly informed by the community centered board of these alternative care provisions at the time the plan of care is initiated.
(II) Nothing in this paragraph (c) requires a community centered board to provide services set forth in a plan of care that the community centered board is not otherwise required to provide to the person receiving services, only that the plan of care include a contingency for such services.
Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1946, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2013: (1) amended, (SB 13-167), ch. 394, p. 2294, § 7, effective June 5; (1) and IP(4) amended, (HB 13-1314), ch. 323, p. 1811, § 48, effective March 1, 2014.
Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former § 26-4-629 as it existed prior to 2006.
(2) Amendments to subsection (1) by Senate Bill 13-167 and House Bill 13-1314 were harmonized.