35 P.S. § 5701.1503 Medical Assistance Benefits For Workers With Disabilities and Workers With Medically Improved Disabilities

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 35 P.S. § 5701.1503

(a) Program establishment.--There is established in the department a medical assistance purchase program for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities. Appropriations to the department from the fund for the program shall be used by the department to provide medical assistance to a worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability.

(b) Worker with a disability or worker with a medically improved disability responsibilities.--A worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability seeking to purchase medical assistance benefits shall:

(1) Pay to the department or its designee 5% of the worker's monthly income in a manner to be determined by the department.

(2) Notify the department or its designee of any change in the worker's monthly income in a manner to be determined by the department.

(3) Failure of a worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability to make payments in accordance with paragraph (1) will result in the termination of medical assistance coverage.