35 P.S. § 5701.2103 Community-Based Health Care Assistance Program

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-21
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 35 P.S. § 5701.2103

(a) Establishment.--There is established in the department the Community-Based Health Care Assistance Program. Subsection (c) shall be administered by the department with the advice of the Insurance Department and the Department of Public Welfare. Appropriations from the fund to the department shall be used to implement the program.

(b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program is to support community-based health care providers and collaboratives in locating, assessing and managing health care for low-income Pennsylvanians and to improve access to and the delivery of preventative, curative and palliative health care to these individuals.

(c) Grants for coordination and outreach.--A grant, not to exceed $350,000, shall be available to a community-based health care provider or a collaborative that meets all of the following:

(1) Identify and assess the general health status of low-income individuals with or at risk for chronic diseases and provide enrollment assistance to these individuals for available health benefit insurance programs.

(2) Provide case management services to low-income individuals to improve their physical health, behavioral health and social condition and to reduce medical complications.

(3) Refer and coordinate care for individuals who require additional health care services.

(4) Reduce the inappropriate use of hospital emergency departments and hospital inpatient stays by persons who are chronically ill.

(5) Educate patients, medical providers, caregivers and the community on the coordinated management of chronic diseases.

(6) Develop regional, nonprofit, community-based integrated delivery systems capable of carrying out the purposes and goals specified in this subsection.

(d) Grants for resources.--Grants shall be available to community-based health care providers to increase access and to improve the delivery and quality of health care by developing and maintaining necessary community-based health care resources. A grant under this subsection shall not exceed $100,000.