KRS 205.617: Expansion of Medicaid coverage for screening and treatment of breast or

cervical cancer or precancerous conditions -- Short title.

(1) The Department for Medicaid Services shall expand Medicaid coverage to offer

benefits to uninsured women who:

(a) Are under age sixty-five (65);

(b) Are not otherwise eligible for Medicaid;

(c) Have been screened for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous conditions,

or any combination of these conditions, through the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection

Program or through the Department for Public Health's Women's Cancer

Screening Program;

(d) Are in need of treatment for breast or cervical cancer or precancerous

conditions, or any combination of these condi tions, as a result of a diagnosis

of those conditions in a program identified in paragraph (c) of this subsection;

(e) Are not otherwise covered under creditable coverage, as defined in 42 U.S.C.

sec. 300gg(c); and

(f) Meet any other eligibility -required c riteria established under the Federal

Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000.

(2) No later than three (3) months after April 10, 2008, the department shall submit to

the secretary of the United States Department for Health and Huma n Services a

request for approval of a plan amendment to extend coverage as authorized under

subsection (1) of this section.

(3) Within three (3) months following receipt of federal approval of a plan amendment,

the department shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS

Chapter 13A to implement the requirements of this section. If federal approval has

not been received within six (6) months after April 10, 2008, for the plan

amendment, the department shall report the status of the req uest for approval and

the steps being taken by the department to secure federal approval.

(4) Medical assistance provided under the plan amendment shall be limited to medical

assistance provided during the period in which a woman who meets the

requirements of subsection (1) of this section requires treatment for breast or

cervical cancer or precancerous conditions, or any combination of these conditions.

In the case of any covered woman whose medical assistance has been terminated

due to a cure or remission of a condition diagnosed under subsection (1)(c) of this

section, medical assistance shall be reinstituted for any subsequent periods of

recurrence or metastasis or any future conditions establishing eligibility under

subsection (1) of this section.

(5) This section shall be known as the Kentucky Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment

Act of 2008.