Plan to implement alternatives for long-term care.

1. Law
2. Oklahoma Statutes
3. Poor Persons
4. Plan to implement alternatives for long-term care.

The Oklahoma Health Care Authority shall develop and administer a plan for the implementation of alternatives for long-term care. The plan shall include, but not be limited to:

1. The continued development and funding of community-based options throughout the State of Oklahoma;

2. The establishment of a cash and counseling program that focuses on increasing personal responsibility, efficiency in utilization, and consumer satisfaction. The program shall include:

• a.provisions ensuring that existing benefits shall not be terminated or decreased as a result of the development of the cash and counseling program,
• b.provisions ensuring that consumers receive a monthly budget based on the needs of that individual,
• c.authority for consumers to use the budget to obtain personal care services and make home modifications to suit the needs of the individual, and
• d.counselors available to work with consumers to develop and revise individual budgets;

3. The establishment of a program providing for state incentives to Oklahoma citizens for long-term care planning; and

4. Stronger private/public partnerships at the community level in order to address unmet patient needs.

Added by Laws 2006, c. 315, § 7, emerg. eff. June 9, 2006. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 303, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2010.

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