North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 71 - ADULT AND FAMILY SUPPORT
Subchapter R - SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
Section .0900 - SERVICE DEFINITIONS
Section 71R .0908 - HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES
Universal Citation: 10A NC Admin Code 71R .0908
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
(a) Primary Service. Health support services means helping individuals and families to:
(1) Recognize health needs including those
related to alcohol and drug abuse;
(2) Cope with incapacities and limited
functioning resulting from aging or disability; and
(3) Choose, obtain and use resources and
mechanisms of support under Medicaid (including the early and periodic
screening, diagnosis and treatment program), medicare, maternal and child
health programs and from other public or private agencies or providers of
health services;
(4) Receive
counseling and planning for the individuals, families and health providers to
help assure continuity of treatment and the carrying out of health
recommendations;
(5) Secure
admission to medical institutions and children to secure admission to other
health-related facilities as needed; and family planning services as described
in Paragraph (b) of this Rule; and
(6) At county option, receive transportation,
when not otherwise available as necessary to access needed medical and health
care resources.
(b) Components. There are two components to Health Support Services:
(1) The Primary Service as described in
Paragraph (a) of this Rule; and
(2)
Family planning services to enable individuals and families to voluntarily
limit the family size or to space the children, and to prevent or reduce the
incidence of births out of wedlock. Such services include educational
activities, the provision of printed materials, counseling about family
planning and genetics, help in utilizing medical and educational services
available in the community, and educational services in human sexuality
appropriate to an individual's emotional and social adjustment and physical
development.
(c) Optional Resource Items.
(1) Medical Services.
An agency may pay for medical services for nontherapeutic sterilization for
individuals who are recipients of, Work First Family Assistance, SSI, or
protective services or whose family income is less than 80 percent of the
Federal Poverty Guidelines as provided annually in the Federal Register by the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
(2) Resources for the Aging or Persons with
Disabilities. At county option the agency may provide any combination of the
following resource items to enable the aging or persons with disabilities to
attain or maintain the highest level of functioning possible, to promote their
well-being and to prevent or reduce inappropriate institutional care:
(A) Assistance with communication to enable
individuals to utilize needed health and medical resources and other community
services and resources through the provision of interpreters for the deaf and
the provision of telephones when not otherwise available for the aging,
disabled, or handicapped who are alone and homebound, or who have a health or
medical condition which necessitates ready access to or frequent use of a
telephone in their home.
(B)
Mobility assistance for aging and disabled persons, through the installation of
ramps, rails and other safety measures at the individual's home and the
provision of escort service to health facilities and other needed resources for
individuals unable to travel or wait alone.
(C) Arranging for or providing friendly
visitors or companions for part of a day to assist individuals who, because of
frailty, physical or mental disability or social isolation, have limited
contacts with other people.
(D)
Provision of special health needs and supplies such as ostomy supplies, oxygen,
bandages, orthopedic and other appliances needed by aging and disabled
individuals in their own homes and not available through Medicaid, Medicare or
resources without cost.
(d) Target Population: The target population includes:
(1) individuals or families
experiencing health related problems;
(2) for the family planning component,
individuals (male or female) who are of age to produce children.
Authority
G.S.
143B-153;
Eff. February 8,
1977;
Amended Eff. March 1, 1983; September 1, 1982; March 1, 1982;
October 1, 1979;
Transferred from T10.43D .0212 Eff. July 1,
1983;
Amended Eff. March 1, 1994; July 1, 1984;
Temporary Amendment Eff. October 21, 1996;
Amended Eff. November 1,
2007; July 1, 1998;
Pursuant to
G.S.
150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. May 20,
2017.
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