La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § IX-1123

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section IX-1123 - Eligible Supports

A. The individual and family support program supports are intended to maintain and/or improve maximum flexibility for eligible participants with intellectual/developmental disabilities and their families by meeting their needs to enable them to remain at home and be fully participating members of their communities. Because each individual is unique, supports will be person-centered and will change with time and the circumstances of the individual and family needing supports.

1. Examples of eligible supports include, but are not limited to:

a. special equipment/supplies;

b. special nutrition/clothing;

c. special therapies;

d. respite;

e. medical expenses;

f. medications;

g. therapeutic services;

h. personal care attendant;

i. home modifications;

j. crisis intervention;

k. family training/therapies;

l. homemaker services;

m. vehicle modifications;

n. recreation services;

o. communication services;

p. transportation;

q. counseling services;

r. home health services;

s. support coordination;

t. specialized utility costs;

u. sitter services;

v. equipment and supplies;

w. adaptive equipment;

x. nutritional supplies;

y. personal assistance services;

z. companion/roommate services;

aa. special evaluations;

bb. therapeutic nursing services;

cc. family subsidy;

dd. vocational/employment supports;

ee. specialized diagnosis and evaluation; and

ff. dental/medical care.

2. Individual and family support funds shall not supplant services from a home and community-based waiver, Medicaid State Plan, EarlySteps, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, local education agency or Medicaid funded behavioral health.

3. Individual and family support funds can be used to supplement other sources of payment only when that funding is deemed by the developmental disabilities director to be insufficient to meet the existing needs of the participant and is fully documented as such in the participant record.

4. Financial subsidy does not reflect a growth in family income and will not be used in calculations for eligibility for public entitlements, except for ineligibility to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § IX-1123

Promulgated by the Department of Health, Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, LR 43668 (4/1/2017), Amended by the Department of Health, Office for Citizens with Developmental Disabilities, LR 46353 (3/1/2020).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 28:824.