12VAC30-110-730. Applicability.
Subpart II
Resource Assessments And Eligibility
Article 1
General
A. These income and resource regulations shall apply to a married institutionalized individual who:
1. Was admitted to a medical institution, medical assistance community-based waiver service or hospice service on or after September 30, 1989, and has been continuously institutionalized since admission; and
2. Has a community spouse.
B. In determining the income and resources of an institutionalized spouse as defined in 12VAC30-110-720, the provisions of 12VAC30-110-720 through 12VAC30-110-1010 supercede any other provision of medical assistance regulations that is inconsistent with them.
C. Except as this section specifically provides, this section does not apply to:
1. The determination of what constitutes income or resources; or
2. The methodology and standards for determining and evaluating income and resources.
D. These rules shall cease to apply to determinations of medical assistance eligibility or to post-eligibility determinations of patient pay in the first calendar month following changes in circumstances resulting in an institutionalized spouse no longer being institutionalized or no longer having a community spouse.
Statutory Authority
§ 32.1-325 of the Code of Virginia.
Historical Notes
Derived from VR460-04-8.6 § 2.1, eff. October 1, 1991; amended, Virginia Register Volume 12, Issue 9, eff. March 1, 1996; Volume 17, Issue 13, eff. April 11, 2001.