{"id":36048,"date":"2024-03-22T07:11:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36048"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:09:11","slug":"transitional-health-care-for-homeless-adults-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=36048","title":{"rendered":"Transitional health care for homeless adults approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short-term housing and supportive medical services will be available for eligible adults experiencing homelessness under a bill approved by lawmakers March 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32958\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"32958\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=32958\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Office of University Communicati&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS R5&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Nebraska Senator Merv Riepe, District 12. November 22, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler \/ University Communication.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1669146598&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a9 2022, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SenRiepe_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Merv Riepe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Merv Riepe&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32958\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Merv Riepe\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/SenRiepe_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Merv Riepe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LB905, introduced by Ralston Sen. Merv Riepe, requires the state Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver or state plan amendment with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by Oct. 1, 2025, to designate two medical respite facilities for homeless individuals in Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>The facilities \u2014 one located in a primary class city and the other in a metropolitan class city \u2014 will be reimbursed for services to qualified individuals. Lincoln is the state\u2019s only primary class city and Omaha is the only metropolitan class city.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also provides the department with authority to license adult respite care facilities and authorizes funding for the program from the Medicaid Managed Care Excess Profit Fund.<\/p>\n<p>LB905 passed on a 43-0 vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short-term housing and supportive medical services will be available for eligible adults experiencing homelessness under a bill approved by lawmakers March 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-36048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-human-services","tag-sen-merv-riepe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36048"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36079,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36048\/revisions\/36079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}