Supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs.

 S-1784.1

SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5504

State of Washington

69th Legislature

2025 Regular Session

By Senate Health & Long-Term Care (originally sponsored by Senators Chapman, Harris, Cortes, Saldaña, Trudeau, and Valdez)

READ FIRST TIME 02/21/25.

AN ACT Relating to supporting caregivers who provide complex care services to children with heightened medical needs; creating a new section; and providing an expiration date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. (1) By December 1, 2025, the health care authority shall seek consultation from the federal centers for medicare and medicaid services for an approval of a state plan amendment to provide payment to a home health agency for complex care services as a component of the private duty nursing benefit when provided to an enrollee under 18 years old receiving private duty nursing in a medical assistance program under chapter 74.09 RCW when:

(a) The caregiver providing the complex care services is a parent, guardian, family member, or other close association that is the equivalent of a family relation of the enrollee;