WAC 388-505-0230 Long term care for families and children.

(1) The sections that follow describe the eligibility requirements for institutional medical benefits for parents and children who are not aged, blind or disabled, and who are admitted for a long term stay to a medical institution, an inpatient psychiatric facility or an institution for mental diseases (IMD):

(a) WAC 388-505-0235  Definitions;

(b) WAC 388-505-0240  General eligibility for family institutional medical coverage;

(c) WAC 388-505-0245  Resource eligibility for family institutional medical coverage;

(d) WAC 388-505-0250  Eligibility for family institutional medical for individuals twenty-one years of age or older;

(e) WAC 388-505-0255  Eligibility for family institutional medical for individuals nineteen and twenty years of age;

(f) WAC 388-505-0260  Eligibility for family institutional medical for children eighteen years of age or younger;

(g) WAC 388-505-0265  How the department determines how much of an institutionalized individual's income must be paid towards the cost of care; and

(h) WAC 388-505-0270  When an involuntary commitment to Eastern or Western State Hospital is covered by medicaid.

(2) Individuals who are already eligible for a noninstitutional family or children's medical program when they are admitted for long term care do not need to submit a new application for institutional medical coverage.  The department treats their admittance to the facility as a change of circumstances and determines their eligibility based upon the length of stay at the facility.