1. The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that the State shall pay the nonfederal share of expenditures for the medical, administrative and transactional costs, to the extent not covered by private insurance, of a person:
(a) Who is admitted to a hospital, facility for intermediate care or facility for skilled nursing for not less than 30 consecutive days;
(b) Who is covered by the State Plan for Medicaid; and
(c) Whose net countable income per month is not more than a percentage prescribed annually by the Director of the supplemental security income benefit rate established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1382(b)(1). The Director shall ensure that the percentage prescribed pursuant to this paragraph complies with federal law.
2. As used in this section:
(a) “Facility for intermediate care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0038.
(b) “Facility for skilled nursing” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0039.
(c) “Hospital” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2217; A 1997, 2217, 2705; 1999, 581, 590, 2242, 2754; 2001, 158; 2003, 873; 2011, 2684)
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