(1) The need for and the amount of medical assistance to be made available for each eligible group of recipients of medical assistance shall be determined, in accordance with the rules of the Department of Human Services, taking into account:
(a) The requirements and needs of the person, the spouse and other dependents;
(b) The income, resources and maintenance available to the person but, except as provided in ORS 414.025 (2)(r), resources shall be disregarded for those eligible by reason of having income below the federal poverty level and who are eligible for medical assistance only because of the enactment of chapter 836, Oregon Laws 1989;
(c) The responsibility of the spouse and, with respect to a person who is blind or is permanently and totally disabled or is under 21 years of age, the responsibility of the parents; and
(d) The report of the Health Services Commission as funded by the Legislative Assembly and such other programs as the Legislative Assembly may authorize. However, medical assistance, including health services, shall not be provided to persons described in ORS 414.025 (2)(r) unless the Legislative Assembly specifically appropriates funds to provide such assistance.
(2) Such amounts of income and resources may be disregarded as the department may prescribe by rules, except that the department may not require any needy person over 65 years of age, as a condition of entering or remaining in a hospital, nursing home or other congregate care facility, to sell any real property normally used as such person’s home. Any rule of the department inconsistent with this section is to that extent invalid. The amounts to be disregarded shall be within the limits required or permitted by federal law, rules or orders applicable thereto.
(3) In the determination of the amount of medical assistance available to a medically needy person, all income and resources available to the person in excess of the amounts prescribed in ORS 414.038, within limits prescribed by the department, shall be applied first to costs of needed medical and remedial care and services not available under the medical assistance program and then to the costs of benefits under the medical assistance program. [1967 c.502 §6; 1971 c.503 §1; 1989 c.836 §20; 1991 c.66 §8; 1991 c.753 §2; 1993 c.815 §20; 1995 c.807 §2; 1997 c.581 §24; 2007 c.861 §21]
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