This section defines several terms used in the part, including “assistance,” “department,” “recipient,” and “regional director.”
As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: “Assistance” means either money payments made to or in behalf of aged persons in need, or medical care and treatment, nursing home care, drugs including hospitalization, and outpatient care or any other type of remedial care recognized under state law in behalf of aged persons in need, or any of these, but does not include subdivisions (1)(A)-(1)(D) unless the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.), is amended to include one (1) or more of the following: Any such payments to or care in behalf of any individual who is an inmate of a public institution, except as a patient in a medical institution, or any individual who is a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases; Any such payments to any individual who has been diagnosed as having tuberculosis or psychosis and is a patient in a medical institution as a result of tuberculosis or psychosis; Any such care in behalf of any individual, who is a patient in a medical institution as a result of a diagnosis that such individual has tuberculosis or psychosis, with respect to any period after the individual has been a patient in such an institution as a result of such diagnosis, for forty-two (42) days; or Is not an inmate of any private institution except such private institution as has been approved by the department at the time of receiving assistance; “Department” means the department of human services; “Recipient” means a person who was receiving old age assistance benefits during the month of December 1973, and is now qualified under the provisions of Public Law 93-66 to continue to receive a state money payment as a supplement to the federally-provided supplemental security income benefits; and “Regional director” means the director of a region under chapter 1, part 1 of this title.