§ 25.5-5-104 — Qualified medicare beneficiaries

Qualified medicare
beneficiaries are medicare-eligible individuals with income and resources at a level
which qualifies them as eligible under section 301 of Title III of the federal
Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, as amended, or subsequent
amending federal legislation. For purposes of this article and articles 4 and 6 of this
title, such individuals shall be referred to as qualified medicare beneficiaries. The
state department is hereby designated as the single state agency to administer
benefits available to qualified medicare beneficiaries in accordance with Title XIX
and this article and articles 4 and 6 of this title. Such benefits are limited to
medicare cost-sharing expenses as determined by the federal government.
Accordingly, the state department shall not be required to provide qualified
medicare beneficiaries the entire range of services set forth in section 25.5-5-102.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1857, � 7, effective July 1.