Title 12, TITLE 12. HUMAN SERVICES

Sec. 1. This chapter applies to a hospice program that has been approved by the office to provide hospice services to hospice program patients. As added by P.L.24-1997, SEC.54.

Sec. 2. (a) As used in this chapter, "hospice" means a person or health care provider who owns or operates a hospice program or facility, or both, that uses an interdisciplinary team directed by a licensed physician to provide a program of planned and continuous care for hospice …

Sec. 3. (a) As used in this chapter, "hospice program" means a specialized form of interdisciplinary health care that is designed to alleviate the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual discomforts of an individual who is experiencing the last phase of a terminal illness or d…

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "hospice program patient" means a terminally ill patient who: (1) has been diagnosed by a licensed physician as having a terminal illness; (2) is expected to die from the terminal illness within six (6) months; and (3) receives hospice services fr…

Sec. 5. As used in this chapter, "hospice services" means: (1) palliative care for the physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and other special needs of a hospice program patient during the final stages of a hospice program patient's terminal illness; and (2) care for the ps…

Sec. 6. The office shall, under 42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq., establish a payment rate to a hospice program for hospice services provided to hospice program patients who are eligible for medical assistance under this article. As added by P.L.24-1997, SEC.54.

Sec. 7. Payment to a hospice program must meet the following conditions: (1) Be determined in accordance with a prospective payment rate that is reasonable and adequate to meet the costs that must be incurred by efficiently and economically operated hospice programs to provide se…

Sec. 8. The office shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2 to implement this chapter. As added by P.L.24-1997, SEC.54.