249J.14 - HEALTH PROMOTION PARTNERSHIPS. - Iowa Statutes

249J.14 HEALTH PROMOTION PARTNERSHIPS. 1. Services for adults at state mental health institutes. Beginning July 1, 2005, inpatient and outpatient hospital services at the state hospitals for persons with mental illness designated pursuant to section 226.1 shall be covered services under the medical assistance program. 2. Dietary counseling. By July 1, 2006, the department shall design and begin implementation of a strategy to provide dietary counseling and support to child and adult recipients of medical assistance and to expansion population members to assist these recipients and members in avoiding excessive weight gain or loss and to assist in development of personal weight loss programs for recipients and members determined by the recipient's or member's health care provider to be clinically overweight. 3. Electronic medical records. By October 1, 2006, the department shall develop a practical strategy for expanding utilization of electronic medical recordkeeping by providers under the medical assistance program and the expansion population provider network. The plan shall focus, initially, on medical assistance program recipients and expansion population members whose quality of care would be significantly enhanced by the availability of electronic medical recordkeeping. 4. Provider incentive payment programs. By January 1, 2007, the department shall design and implement a provider incentive payment program for providers under the medical assistance program and providers included in the expansion population provider network based upon evaluation of public and private sector models. 5. Health assessment for medical assistance recipients with mental retardation or developmental disabilities. The department shall work with the university of Iowa colleges of medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health, and the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics to determine whether the physical and dental health of recipients of medical assistance who are persons with mental retardation or developmental disabilities are being regularly and fully addressed and to identify barriers to such care. The department shall report the department's findings to the governor and the general assembly by January 1, 2007. 6. Smoking cessation. The department, in collaboration with Iowa department of public health programs relating to tobacco use prevention and cessation, shall implement a program with the goal of reducing smoking among recipients of medical assistance who are children to less than one percent and among recipients of medical assistance and expansion population members who are adults to less than ten percent, by July 1, 2007. 7. Dental home for children. By December 31, 2010, every recipient of medical assistance who is a child twelve years of age or younger shall have a designated dental home and shall be provided with the dental screenings, preventive services, diagnostic services, treatment services, and emergency services as defined under the early and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment program. 8. Reports. The department shall report on a quarterly basis to the medical assistance projections and assessment council established pursuant to section 249J.20 and the medical assistance advisory council created pursuant to section 249A.4B, regarding the health promotion partnerships described in this section. To the greatest extent feasible, and if applicable to a data set, the data reported shall include demographic information concerning the population served including but not limited to factors, such as race and economic status, as specified by the department.          Section History: Recent Form 2005 Acts, ch 167, §15, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §29; 2008 Acts, ch 1188, §48 Referred to in § 135.159, 249J.23