A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to provide for improved delivery of and access to home care and to increase the utilization of such care as an alternative to institutionalization.
Senior Home Care Choice Fairness and Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) provide for the application of Medicaid spousal impoverishment rules to spouses of individuals receiving home- or community-based services; (2) increase the number of individuals allowed to receive such services; and (3) require hospitals to inform Medicaid patients of the availability of home care services and, in a State operating under a waiver program, to inform them of the availability of home- and community-based services. Mirrors such requirement with respect to Medicare (SSA title XVIII) patients.
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to the Congress on the costs of home health care.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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