New Jersey § 30:4d-17

§ 30:4d-17.

The commissioner, in consultation with the Medicaid Long-Term Care Funding Advisory

Council established pursuant to this act, 1 shall: a. Implement, by such time as the commissioner certifies to the Governor and the Legislature

that funding parity has been achieved pursuant to subsection b. of section 5 of this

act, 2 a comprehensive data system to track long-term care expenditures and services and

consumer profiles and preferences. The data system shall include, but not be limited to: the number of vacant nursing

home beds annually and the number of nursing home residents transferred to home and

community-based care pursuant to this act; annual long-term care expenditures for

nursing home care and each of the home and community based long-term care options

available to Medicaid recipients; and annual percentage changes in both long-term

care expenditures for, and the number of Medicaid recipients utilizing, nursing home

care and each of the home and community based long-term care options, respectively; b. Commence the following no later than January 1, 2008: (1) implement a system of Statewide long-term care service coordination and management

designed to minimize administrative costs, improve access to services, and minimize

obstacles to the delivery of long-term care services to people in need; (2) identify home and community based long-term care service models that are determined

by the commissioner to be efficient and cost-effective alternatives to nursing home

care, and develop clear and concise performance standards for those services for which

standards are not already available in a home and community-based services waiver; (3) develop and implement a comprehensive consumer assessment instrument that is designed to facilitate an

expedited process to authorize the provision of home and community-based care to a

person through fast track eligibility prior to completion of a formal financial eligibility

determination; and (4) develop and implement a comprehensive quality assurance system with appropriate

and regular assessments that is designed to ensure that all forms of long-term care

available to consumers in this State are financially viable, cost-effective, and promote

and sustain consumer independence; and c. Seek to make information available to the general public on a Statewide basis,

through print and electronic media, regarding the various forms of long-term care

available in this State and the rights accorded to long-term care consumers by statute

and regulation, as well as information about public and nonprofit agencies and organizations

that provide informational and advocacy services to assist long-term care consumers

and their families. 1

N.J.S.A. § 30:4D-17.29. 2

N.J.S.A. § 30:4D-17.27.