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[CITE: 42USC300ff-24]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
            SUBCHAPTER XXIV--HIV HEALTH CARE SERVICES PROGRAM
 
                       Part B--Care Grant Program
 
                   subpart i--general grant provisions
 
Sec. 300ff-24. Grants for home- and community-based care


(a) Uses

    A State may use amounts provided under a grant awarded under this 
part to make grants under section 300ff-22(a)(2) \1\ of this title to 
entities to--
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    \1\ See References in Text note below.
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        (1) provide home- and community-based health services for 
    individuals with HIV disease pursuant to written plans of care 
    prepared by a case management team, that shall include appropriate 
    health care professionals, in such State for providing such services 
    to such individuals;
        (2) provide outreach services to individuals with HIV disease, 
    including those individuals in rural areas; and
        (3) provide for the coordination of the provision of services 
    under this section with the provision of HIV-related health services 
    provided by public and private entities.

(b) Priority

    In awarding grants under subsection (a) of this section, a State 
shall give priority to entities that provide assurances to the State 
that--
        (1) such entities will participate in HIV care consortia if such 
    consortia exist within the State; and
        (2) such entities will utilize amounts provided under such 
    grants for the provision of home- and community-based services to 
    low-income individuals with HIV disease.

(c) ``Home- and community-based health services'' defined

    As used in this part, the term ``home- and community-based health 
services''--
        (1) means, with respect to an individual with HIV disease, 
    skilled health services furnished to the individual in the 
    individual's home pursuant to a written plan of care established by 
    a case management team, that shall include appropriate health care 
    professionals, for the provision of such services and items 
    described in paragraph (2);
        (2) includes--
            (A) durable medical equipment;
            (B) homemaker or home health aide services and personal care 
        services furnished in the home of the individual;
            (C) day treatment or other partial hospitalization services;
            (D) home intravenous and aerosolized drug therapy (including 
        prescription drugs administered as part of such therapy);
            (E) routine diagnostic testing administered in the home of 
        the individual; and
            (F) appropriate mental health, developmental, and 
        rehabilitation services; and

        (3) does not include--
            (A) inpatient hospital services; and
            (B) nursing home and other long term care facilities.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, Sec. 2614, as added Pub. L. 101-381, 
title II, Sec. 201, Aug. 18, 1990, 104 Stat. 589.)

                       References in Text

    Section 300ff-22 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a), was 
amended by Pub. L. 104-146, Sec. 3(c)(2)(A)(i), May 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 
1354, and, as so amended, no longer contains a subsec. (a).


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2614 of act July 1, 1944, was successively 
renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238m of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 300ff-22 of this title.
