CHAPTER 4 - PUBLIC ASSISTANCE
- ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
- § 49-4-1 - Short title
- § 49-4-10 - Physical examination of applicant
- § 49-4-11 - Award and payment of public assistance
- § 49-4-12 - Periodic redetermination of award; reporting changes in recipient's circumstances; review by department
- § 49-4-13 - Hearings; appeal
- § 49-4-14 - Regulations as to records; use or disclosure of information; penalty
- § 49-4-15 - Fraud in obtaining public assistance, food stamps, or Medicaid; penalties; recovery of overpayments
- § 49-4-15.1 - Examination of financial records in instances of alleged fraud
- § 49-4-16 - Research, demonstration, and work experience programs; surplus food distribution
- § 49-4-17 - Funding costs of assistance and administration; county participation not required
- § 49-4-17.1 - Establishment of pilot community work experience programs
- § 49-4-18 - Article construed with federal Social Security Act; adoption of rules to comply with federal act
- § 49-4-19 - Social assistance register
- § 49-4-2 - Definitions
- § 49-4-3 - Establishment of categories of public assistance; powers and duties in administration of article
- § 49-4-4 - Residence in state as affecting eligibility for public assistance
- § 49-4-5 - Determining amount of public assistance
- § 49-4-6 - Reserves, income, and resources to be disregarded
- § 49-4-7 - Receipt of compensation for residence sold by government action not to affect eligibility
- § 49-4-8 - Application for public assistance
- § 49-4-9 - Investigation and record concerning applicant
- ARTICLE 2 - OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE
- § 49-4-30 - Short title
- § 49-4-31 - Definitions
- § 49-4-32 - Eligibility for assistance under this article
- § 49-4-33 - Duties of department under this article
- § 49-4-34 - Duties of county departments under this article
- § 49-4-35 - Assistance is neither assignable nor subject to legal process or operation of bankruptcy law; payment of assistance check after death of recipient
- § 49-4-36 - Payment of assistance after recipient moves to another county
- § 49-4-37 - Claims to assistance subject to amendments or repeals
- § 49-4-38 - Roll book of employees
- ARTICLE 3 - AID TO THE BLIND
- § 49-4-50 - Short title
- § 49-4-51 - Definitions; when person considered blind
- § 49-4-52 - Eligibility for assistance under this article
- § 49-4-53 - Duties of department under this article
- § 49-4-54 - Duties of county departments under this article
- § 49-4-55 - Examination of applicant by ophthalmologist or optometrist
- § 49-4-56 - Reexamination of recipient's eyesight; furnishing information
- § 49-4-57 - Providing supplementary treatment services
- § 49-4-58 - Assistance is neither assignable nor subject to legal process; payment of assistance check after death of recipient
- § 49-4-59 - Recovery of assistance payments from recipient's estate; federal share of amounts recovered
- § 49-4-60 - Payment of assistance after recipient moves to another county
- § 49-4-61 - Claims to assistance subject to amendments or repeals
- ARTICLE 4 - AID TO THE DISABLED
- § 49-4-80 - Definitions
- § 49-4-81 - Eligibility for assistance under this article
- § 49-4-82 - Duties of department under this article
- § 49-4-83 - Duties of county departments under this article
- § 49-4-84 - Assistance is neither assignable nor subject to legal process or operation of bankruptcy law; payment of assistance check after death of recipient
- § 49-4-85 - Payment of assistance after recipient moves to another county
- § 49-4-86 - Claims to assistance subject to amendments or repeals
- ARTICLE 5 - AID TO FAMILIES WITH DEPENDENT CHILDREN
- ARTICLE 6 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR AGED
- ARTICLE 7 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE GENERALLY
- § 49-4-140 - Short title
- § 49-4-141 - Definitions
- § 49-4-142 - Department of Community Health established; adoption, administration, and modification of state plan; drug application fees
- § 49-4-142.1 - Legislative notification of request for waiver
- § 49-4-143 - Power of Board of Community Health; Board of Medical Assistance abolished
- § 49-4-144 - Chief administrative officer; powers and duties
- § 49-4-145 - Time limitations on claims for assistance; form of claims
- § 49-4-146 - Time for action on claim
- § 49-4-146.1 - Unlawful acts; violations and penalties; recovery of excess amounts; termination and reinstatement of providers; duty of department to identify and investigate violations and notify p
- § 49-4-146.2 - Requirements for voluntary termination of provider agreements by nursing facilities; adjustment of medical assistance rate; decertification
- § 49-4-146.3 - Forfeiture of property and proceeds obtained through Medicaid fraud; fraud forfeiture proceedings; seizure of property subject to forfeiture; lien; inventory; court orders
- § 49-4-147 - Enforcement of liens, claims, or offsets against assistance
- § 49-4-147.1 - Claims by department against estate of Medicaid recipients
- § 49-4-147.2 - Noneligibility of Department of Community Health to obtain nor be liable for interest on orders, judgments, and liquidated or unliquidated amounts; exemptions
- § 49-4-148 - Recovery of assistance from third party liable for sickness, injury, disease, or disability; compromise or waiver of claim; compliance; effective date
- § 49-4-149 - Lien of Department of Community Health against third parties; subrogation to recipients' insurance claims; assignment of recipients' claims
- § 49-4-149.1 - Submission by department of plan for family supplementation of Medicaid payments upon federal removal of restrictions
- § 49-4-150 - Regulations as to maintenance and use of records; certificate as to use of information
- § 49-4-151 - Obtaining information for investigations and audits
- § 49-4-152 - Research and demonstration projects; pilot projects to provide health care coverage and essential health care services; pharmacy assistance programs
- § 49-4-152.1 - Medicaid Prescription Drug Bidding and Rebate Program
- § 49-4-152.2 - Rebates for sole-source and multiple-source drugs included in Controlled Medical Assistance Drug List
- § 49-4-152.3 - Reuse of unit dosage drugs
- § 49-4-152.4 - Department contracts to require refund of prescription drug rebates
- § 49-4-152.5 - Restocking fees
- § 49-4-153 - Administrative hearings and appeals; judicial review; contested cases involving imposition of remedial or punitive measure against nursing facility
- § 49-4-154 - Powers and duties retained by Department of Human Resources (Department of Community Health)
- § 49-4-155 - Department of Community Health to succeed to existing rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and administrative orders
- § 49-4-156 - Tax exemption for health maintenance organizations with respect to contracts pursuant to this article
- § 49-4-156.1 - Reimbursement for services rendered under Article 5 of Chapter 6 of this title
- § 49-4-157 - Construction of this article with federal act
- ARTICLE 7A - LONG-TERM CARE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
- § 49-4-160 - Short title
- § 49-4-161 - Definitions
- § 49-4-162 - Program established; purposes; assets to be disregarded with respect to Medicaid eligibility or payment or recovery by the state of payments for medical services
- § 49-4-163 - Eligibility for asset disregard; reciprocal agreements with other states to extend asset disregard mutually
- § 49-4-164 - Requirements for selling qualified long-term care insurance partnership policies; rules and regulations; reports
- § 49-4-165 - Notice to consumers
- § 49-4-166 - Effective date
- ARTICLE 7B - STATE FALSE MEDICAID CLAIMS ACT
- § 49-4-168 - Definitions
- § 49-4-168.1 - Civil penalties for false or fraudulent Medicaid claims
- § 49-4-168.2 - Role of Attorney General in pursuing cases; civil actions by private persons; special procedures for civil actions by private persons; limitation on participation by private person; s
- § 49-4-168.3 - Standard of proof; procedure
- § 49-4-168.4 - Employee discrimination or harassment by employer while employee pursues civil action under State False Medicaid Claims Act
- § 49-4-168.5 - Statute of limitations
- § 49-4-168.6 - Venue
- ARTICLE 7C - THERAPY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
- ARTICLE 8 - PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO MANAGE ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS
- § 49-4-170 - Grounds for appointing personal representative; petition by county or district director
- § 49-4-171 - Hearing on petition; appointment, duties, and removal of representative; court costs waived
- § 49-4-172 - Appeal from order of appointment or removal
- § 49-4-173 - Maintenance of records by county or district director; use of facts and findings in other proceedings
- ARTICLE 9 - TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES
- § 49-4-180 - Short title
- § 49-4-181 - Definitions
- § 49-4-182 - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program created
- § 49-4-183 - Administration of article by department; promulgation of rules and regulations by board; duties of department
- § 49-4-184 - Eligibility for assistance
- § 49-4-185 - Sanctions against recipient for failure to comply
- § 49-4-186 - Schedule of assistance to eliminate increment in benefits under TANF program as result of child birth during eligibility period
- § 49-4-187 - Assistance for applicants moving into state after receiving assistance from another state
- § 49-4-188 - Assistance for qualified aliens
- § 49-4-189 - [Reserved]
- § 49-4-190 - Construction of article
- § 49-4-191 - Establishment and enforcement of standards and procedures by department
- § 49-4-192 - Establishment of pilot LEARNFARE program