Section 5701.2103 - Community-Based Health Care Assistance Program(a) Establishment.--There is established in the department the Community-Based Health Care Assistance Program. Subsection (c) shall be administered by the department with the advice of the Insurance Department and the Department of Public Welfare. Appropriations from the fund to the department shall be used to implement the program.(b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program is to support community-based health care providers and collaboratives in locating, assessing and managing health care for low-income Pennsylvanians and to improve access to and the delivery of preventative, curative and palliative health care to these individuals.(c) Grants for coordination and outreach.--A grant, not to exceed $350,000, shall be available to a community-based health care provider or a collaborative that meets all of the following:(1) Identify and assess the general health status of low-income individuals with or at risk for chronic diseases and provide enrollment assistance to these individuals for available health benefit insurance programs.(2) Provide case management services to low-income individuals to improve their physical health, behavioral health and social condition and to reduce medical complications.(3) Refer and coordinate care for individuals who require additional health care services.(4) Reduce the inappropriate use of hospital emergency departments and hospital inpatient stays by persons who are chronically ill.(5) Educate patients, medical providers, caregivers and the community on the coordinated management of chronic diseases.(6) Develop regional, nonprofit, community-based integrated delivery systems capable of carrying out the purposes and goals specified in this subsection.(d) Grants for resources.--Grants shall be available to community-based health care providers to increase access and to improve the delivery and quality of health care by developing and maintaining necessary community-based health care resources. A grant under this subsection shall not exceed $100,000.(e) Application.--An application for a grant under this section shall be evaluated by the department to determine its merit in achieving the purposes set forth in subsections (c) and (d) through the strategic goals and objectives set forth in the application. The department shall provide applications for grants under this section to all known community-based health care providers and collaboratives. A grant under this section may be extended over two State fiscal years at the request of the community-based health care provider or collaborative.(f) Report.--(1) A community-based health care provider or collaborative receiving a grant under this section shall report to the department, as specified by the department, on all of the following:(i) The progress of its efforts to improve the delivery and management of health care to low-income persons, as measured by the goals and objectives developed by the department.(ii) Documentation of the reduction of unnecessary and redundant health care services to such persons.(iii) The data necessary for evaluation of the programs as defined by the department.(2) The department shall provide 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. The report shall be due November 30, 2002. The report shall include a list of the grants awarded, the impact on the entities which received the grants, the impact of the grant on improving the delivery and quality of health care in the community and the amount of funds spent. The 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, § 2103, effective 7/1/2001.