The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall seek to prohibit the sheltering of assets in medical assistance long-term-care cases by promulgation of administrative regulations, pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A, that establish the following: (1) Consideration of assets placed in Medicaid -qualifying trusts as a prohibited transfer of resources, to the extent prohibited by federal law; (2) Revision of Medicaid policy to provide that assets funding the purchase of an annuity shall be treated as a transfer of res ources unless the annuity is actuarially sound as defined in administrative regulations promulgated by the cabinet pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A; (3) Revision of Medicaid policy to treat income -producing property as an available resource to the extent allowed by federal law; (4) Review of Medicaid eligibility procedures and operation to improve eligibility verification and detection of fraud and abuse; and (5) Review of the feasibility of instituting a photographic identification card, possibly in conjunction with other entitlement programs, to reduce fraud and abuse through misuse of Medicaid identification cards.
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