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TEAMKY Demonstration

Approval Period: January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2029

Page 31 of 155 44. Participating Correctional Facilities. The pre-release services will be provided at correctional facilities or outside of the correctional facilities, with appropriate transportation and security oversight provided by the correctional facility, subject to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ approval of a facility’s readiness, according to the implementation timeline described in STC 48/49. States must be mindful of and ensure the policies, procedures, and processes developed to support implementation of these provisions do not effectuate a delay of an individual’s release or lead to increased involvement in the juvenile and adult justice systems. Correctional facilities that are also institutions for mental diseases (IMDs) are not allowed to participate in the reentry demonstration initiative.

45. Participating Providers.

a) Licensed, registered, certified, or otherwise appropriately credentialed or recognized practitioners under Kentucky’s scope of practice statutes shall provide services within their individual scope of practice and, as applicable, receive supervision required under their scope of practice laws and must be enrolled as Medicaid or CHIP providers.

b) Participating providers eligible to deliver services under the reentry demonstration initiative may be either community-based or correctional facility-based providers.

c) All participating providers and provider staff, including correctional providers, shall have necessary experience and receive appropriate training, as applicable to a given correctional facility, prior to furnishing demonstration-covered pre-release services under the reentry demonstration initiative.

d) Participating providers of reentry case management services may be community-based or correctional providers who have expertise working with justice-involved individuals.

46. Suspension of Coverage. Upon entry of a Medicaid or CHIP enrolled individual into a correctional facility, the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services must not terminate and generally shall suspend their Medicaid coverage or CHIP eligibility.

a) If an individual is not enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP when entering a correctional facility, the state must ensure that such an individual receives assistance with completing an application for Medicaid or CHIP and with submitting an application, unless the individual declines such assistance or wants to decline enrollment.

47. Interaction with Mandatory State Plan Benefits for Eligible Juveniles and Targeted Low-Income Children. To the extent Kentucky’s reentry demonstration includes coverage otherwise required to be provided under section 1902(a)(84)(D) and section 2102(d)(2) of the Act, and because this coverage is included in the base expenditures used to determine the budget neutrality or allotment neutrality expenditure limit, the state will claim for these expenditures and related transitional non-service expenditures under this demonstration as well as include this coverage in the monitoring and evaluation of this demonstration.