KRS 205.203: Authorization to provide in-home services to the aging -- Collection of fees.

(1) The secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may provide, within

budgetary limitations, for in -home services to the aging to include, but not

necessarily limited to: homemaker services; home -help therapy services; day -care

services; home-delivered meal services; transportation services; foster care services;

and health services.

(2) The cabinet is authorized to collect fees for services rendered pursuant to this

section in accordance with a fee schedule adopted by the secretary for health and

family services. The fee schedule shall take into consideration the ability of the

patient or client to pay for such services. Fees shall not be collected from any person

who is "needy aged" as defined by KRS 205.010.

(3) The secretary may utilize and promote available or potential community resources

for the delivery of services to the aging and shall, when he deems appropriate,

contract for services with local, communi ty, private agencies, and individuals,

including relatives of patients and clients, when such services would not otherwise

be available without cost.

(4) The services to the aging authorized under this section are in addition and

supplementary to any servi ces to which the aging may be entitled under any other

federal, state, or local governmental law, regulation, or program.

(5) The services to the aging authorized under this section shall be designed to meet the

needs of the minority elderly as identified by the Cabinet for Health and Family

Services pursuant to KRS 205.201.