Section 210-RICR-50-10-2.2 - ApplicabilityA. The Personal Choice Program provides self-directed home and community-based services to Medicaid long-term services and supports (LTSS) eligible individuals. Personal Choice is a long-term care program for individuals with disabilities who are over the age of eighteen (18) or all individuals age sixty-five (65) or over who meet either a high or highest level of care. Services are geared toward reducing unnecessary institutionalization by providing specialized home and community-based services to qualified Medicaid participants at an aggregate cost which is less than or equal to the cost of institutional or nursing facility care.B. This Regulation does not apply to self-directed programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) overseen by the Rhode Island Department of Behavioral Healthcare, Developmental Disabilities and Hospitals (BHDDH) pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 40.1-1-13. To reference the Regulations for BHDDH Self-Directed services, please refer to the Rules and Regulations for Developmental Disability Organizations 212-RICR-10-05-1.10.3, Fiscal Intermediary Services, and 212-RICR-10-05-1.2(A)(42), Definitions.C. Pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 40-8.15-2(b), nothing in this Part shall interfere with the regulatory authority of the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) over individual providers' licensing.210 R.I. Code R. 210-RICR-50-10-2.2
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