249A.26 - STATE AND COUNTY PARTICIPATION IN FUNDING FOR SERVICES TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES -- CASE MANAGEMENT. - Iowa Statutes

249A.26 STATE AND COUNTY PARTICIPATION IN FUNDING FOR SERVICES TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES -- CASE MANAGEMENT. 1. The state shall pay for one hundred percent of the nonfederal share of the services paid for under any prepaid mental health services plan for medical assistance implemented by the department as authorized by law. 2. a. Except as provided for disallowed costs in section 249A.27, the county of legal settlement shall pay for fifty percent of the nonfederal share of the cost and the state shall have responsibility for the remaining fifty percent of the nonfederal share of the cost of case management provided to adults, day treatment, and partial hospitalization provided under the medical assistance program for persons with mental retardation, a developmental disability, or chronic mental illness. For purposes of this section, persons with mental disorders resulting from Alzheimer's disease or substance abuse shall not be considered chronically mentally ill. To the maximum extent allowed under federal law and regulations, the department shall consult with and inform a county of legal settlement's central point of coordination process, as defined in section 331.440, regarding the necessity for and the provision of any service for which the county is required to provide reimbursement under this subsection. b. The state shall pay for one hundred percent of the nonfederal share of the costs of case management provided for adults, day treatment, partial hospitalization, and the home and community-based services waiver services for persons who have no legal settlement or the legal settlement is unknown so that the persons are deemed to be state cases. c. The case management services specified in this subsection shall be paid for by a county only if the services are provided outside of a managed care contract. 3. To the maximum extent allowed under federal law and regulations, a person with mental illness or mental retardation shall not be eligible for any service which is funded in whole or in part by a county share of the nonfederal portion of medical assistance funds unless the person is referred through the central point of coordination process, as defined in section 331.440. However, to the extent federal law allows referral of a medical assistance recipient to a service without approval of the central point of coordination process, the county of legal settlement shall be billed for the nonfederal share of costs for any adult person for whom the county would otherwise be responsible. 4. The county of legal settlement shall pay for one hundred percent of the nonfederal share of the cost of services provided to adult persons with chronic mental illness who qualify for habilitation services in accordance with the rules adopted for the services. The state shall pay for one hundred percent of the nonfederal share of the cost of such services provided to such persons who have no legal settlement or the legal settlement is unknown so that the persons are deemed to be state cases. 5. The state shall pay for the entire nonfederal share of the costs for case management services provided to persons seventeen years of age or younger who are served in a home and community-based services waiver program under the medical assistance program for persons with mental retardation. 6. Funding under the medical assistance program shall be provided for case management services for eligible persons seventeen years of age or younger residing in counties with child welfare decategorization projects implemented in accordance with section 232.188, provided these projects have included these persons in the service plan and the decategorization project county is willing to provide the nonfederal share of the costs. 7. Unless a county has paid or is paying for the nonfederal share of the costs of a person's home and community-based waiver services or placement in an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation under the county's mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services fund, or unless a county of legal settlement would become liable for the costs of services for a person at the level of care provided in an intermediate care facility for persons with mental retardation due to the person reaching the age of majority, the state shall pay for the nonfederal share of the costs of an eligible person's services under the home and community-based services waiver for persons with brain injury. 8. If a dispute arises between different counties or between the department and a county as to the legal settlement of a person who receives medical assistance for which the nonfederal share is payable in whole or in part by a county of legal settlement, and cannot be resolved by the parties, the dispute shall be resolved as provided in section 225C.8. 9. Notwithstanding section 8.39, the department may transfer funds appropriated for the medical assistance program to a separate account established in the department's case management unit in an amount necessary to pay for expenditures required to provide case management for mental health, mental retardation, and developmental disabilities services under the medical assistance program which are jointly funded by the state and county, pending final settlement of the expenditures. Funds received by the case management unit in settlement of the expenditures shall be used to replace the transferred funds and are available for the purposes for which the funds were originally appropriated.          Section History: Recent Form 91 Acts, ch 158, § 7; 92 Acts, ch 1241, § 74; 93 Acts, ch 172, §43; 94 Acts, ch 1150, §3; 96 Acts, ch 1183, § 32; 2002 Acts, ch 1120, §3, 9; 2004 Acts, ch 1090, § 33, 52; 2005 Acts, ch 175, §113; 2007 Acts, ch 218, §119          Footnotes Prohibition against requiring county funding for medical assistance program waiver for services to persons with brain injury; 94 Acts, ch 1170, § 57