1. The Director shall include in the State Plan for Medicaid a requirement that the monthly personal needs allowance described in 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(q) for each institutionalized person who resides in a facility for skilled nursing must be not less than the monthly personal needs allowance provided for residents of residential facilities for groups who, under the State Plan for Medicaid, receive home and community-based services.
2. As used in this section:
(a) “Facility for skilled nursing” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0039.
(b) “Institutionalized person” has the meaning ascribed to the term “institutionalized individual or couple” in 42 U.S.C. § 1396a(q)(1)(B).
(c) “Residential facility for groups” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.017.