Section 5701.1503 - Medical assistance benefits for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities(a) Program establishment.--There is established in the department a medical assistance purchase program for workers with disabilities and workers with medically improved disabilities. Appropriations to the department from the fund for the program shall be used by the department to provide medical assistance to a worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability.(b) Worker with a disability or worker with a medically improved disability responsibilities.--A worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability seeking to purchase medical assistance benefits shall:(1) Pay to the department or its designee 5% of the worker's monthly income in a manner to be determined by the department.(2) Notify the department or its designee of any change in the worker's monthly income in a manner to be determined by the department.(3) Failure of a worker with a disability or a worker with a medically improved disability to make payments in accordance with paragraph (1) will result in the termination of medical assistance coverage.(c) Provision of benefits.--Upon receipt of a worker's payment under subsection (b)(1), the department or its designee shall provide to the worker medical assistance benefits at the categorically needy level as defined by the department.(d) Department responsibilities.--The department shall: (1) Administer the medical assistance purchase program.(2) Prepare and submit by November 30, 2002, and annually thereafter a report to the chair and minority chair of the Public Health and Welfare Committee of the Senate and the chair and minority chair of the Health and Human Services Committee of the House of Representatives on the number of individuals purchasing medical benefits, the average amount paid for the benefits and any other information deemed necessary by the department. The annual report shall be made available for public inspection and posted on the department's publicly accessible World Wide Web site.2001, June 26, P.L. 755, No. 77, § 1503, effective 7/1/2001.