Tennessee Code 71-5-194 – Spend down eligibility for medical assistance
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-5-194
- Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 71-5-103
- Medical assistance: means payment of the cost of care, services and supplies necessary to prevent, diagnose, correct or cure conditions in the person that cause acute suffering, endanger life, result in illness or infirmity, interfere with the person's capacity for normal activity, or threaten some significant handicap and that are furnished an eligible person in accordance with this part and the rules and regulations of the department. See Tennessee Code 71-5-103
On or before July 1, 2003, the department of human services shall make available on the department of human services’ web page all rules, operating procedures and any other similar material relative to determining an individual’s spend down eligibility for medical assistance under this chapter and the operating procedures and any other similar material necessary for a pharmacy to determine which prescriptions used to qualify the patient for TennCare through the spend down eligibility criteria are eligible to be billed to the TennCare program based on the effective date of eligibility for medical assistance.