Indiana Administrative Code
Title 455 - DIVISION OF AGING
Article 1 - AGING
Rule 5 - Community and Home Options to Institutional Care for the Elderly and Disabled Program
Section 5-3 - Selection of local administrative units
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 12-9.1-2-3; IC 12-10-10-6
Affected: IC 12-10-10-1
Sec. 3.
(a) The division shall contract with the AAAs to administer CHOICE funds. These activities include local administrative functions, including, but not limited to, the following:
(b) Each AAA shall submit a plan to the division that contains the following:
(c) Each AAA shall arrange for the provision of individually needed CHOICE services through local provider agencies or individuals.
(d) An AAA may provide community and home care services to individuals in the CHOICE program if the division determines that an appropriate alternative provider agency is not available. Before an AAA can provide community and home care services to individuals in the CHOICE program, the AAA must be granted a waiver from the division for the specific services to be delivered by the AAA.
(e) Under subsection (d), an AAA submitting a waiver request to provide services shall include documentation of the unavailability of appropriate alternative providers, including, but not limited to, failure to obtain responses after advertising the availability of CHOICE funds and description of the efforts that it has exercised to solicit provider expansion into the given area or description of the efforts utilized to stimulate new provider growth.
(f) The contract period for an AAA shall be two (2) years.
(g) The AAA and all CHOICE providers shall abide by all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.
Transferred from the Division of Disability and Rehabilitative Services ( 460 IAC 1-4-3) to the Division of Aging ( 455 IAC 1-5-3) by P.L. 153-2011, SECTION 21, effective July 1, 2011.