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2302 - Concurrent Care for Children

 
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Summary

Effective upon the ACA’s enactment (i.e., March 23, 2010), authorizes payment to be made under Medicaid and CHIP for hospice services provided to children with a terminal illness while still enabling such children to receive access to curative treatment for such terminal illness.    

#Hospice, #Pediatrics

Implementation Status

 
Summary 
Statutory Text 

Prior to January 2013, CMS issued guidance on this provision in the fall of 2010 and subsequently issued further information to states in the spring of 2011 relative to the release of a draft SPA preprint for states to use to implement concurrent hospice care for children in Medicaid and CHIP.

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SEC. 2302. CONCURRENT CARE FOR CHILDREN. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1905(o)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1396d(o)(1)) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘subparagraph (B)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (B) and (C)’’; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ‘‘(C) A voluntary election to have payment made for hospice care for a child (as defined by the State) shall not constitute a waiver of any rights of the child to be provided with, or to have payment made under this title for, services that are related to the treatment of the child’s condition for which a diagnosis of terminal illness has been made.’’. (b) APPLICATION TO CHIP.—Section 2110(a)(23) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397jj(a)(23)) is amended by inserting ‘‘(concurrent, in the case of an individual who is a child, with care related to the treatment of the child’s condition with respect to which a diagnosis of terminal illness has been made’’ after ‘‘hospice care’’.

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