Current through P.L. 171-2024
Section 12-16-3.5-3 - Rules establishing income and resource eligibility standards; adoption; conditions(a) The division shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to establish income and resource eligibility standards for patients whose care is to be paid under the hospital care for the indigent program.(b) To the extent possible and subject to this article, rules adopted under this section must meet the following conditions:(1) Be consistent with IC 12-15-21-2 and IC 12-15-21-3.(2) Be adjusted at least one (1) time every two (2) years.(c) The income and eligibility standards established under this section do not include any spend down provisions available under IC 12-15-21-2 or IC 12-15-21-3.(d) In addition to the conditions imposed under subsection (b), rules adopted under this section must exclude a Holocaust victim's settlement payment received by an eligible individual from the income and eligibility standards for patients whose care is to be paid for under the hospital care for the indigent program.As added by P.L. 120-2002, SEC.19. Amended by P.L. 145-2005, SEC.7.