IC 12-11-2.1
    Chapter 2.1. Service Coordination Services for DevelopmentallyDisabled Individuals

IC 12-11-2.1-1
Diagnostic assessment
    Sec. 1. (a) The bureau shall determine whether or not anindividual has a developmental disability. For individuals for whomthere is not enough current information available to make adetermination of eligibility, the bureau shall use the results of adiagnostic assessment in determining whether an individual has adevelopmental disability. A diagnostic assessment must include thefollowing:
        (1) Diagnostic information concerning the individual'sfunctioning level and medical and habilitation needs.
        (2) All information necessary for the use of the office ofMedicaid policy and planning, the Indiana health facilitiescouncil, and the division.
        (3) The use of all appropriate assessments conducted underrules adopted under IC 16-28.
    (b) An individual who is found not to have a developmentaldisability may appeal the bureau's finding under IC 4-21.5.
    (c) If an individual is determined to have a developmentaldisability, the office shall determine whether the individual meets theappropriate federal level of care requirements.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.76.

IC 12-11-2.1-2
Service coordination services
    Sec. 2. The bureau shall, within the limits of available resources,provide service coordination services to individuals with adevelopmental disability. Service coordination services must includethe development of an individual service plan.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.77.

IC 12-11-2.1-3
Services provided through individual service plan
    Sec. 3. All services provided to an individual must be providedunder the individual service plan of the individual with a disability.To the extent that services described in IC 12-11-1.1-1(e) areavailable and meet the individual's needs, services provided to anindividual shall be provided in the least restrictive environmentpossible.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.14-2000,SEC.29; P.L.99-2007, SEC.78.

IC 12-11-2.1-4
Placement authority    Sec. 4. The bureau shall serve as the placement authority forindividuals with a developmental disability under service plansdeveloped under this chapter, including all placements in a statedevelopmental center or an intermediate care facility.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.79.

IC 12-11-2.1-5
Authorizing services for individual in community based setting
    Sec. 5. When authorizing services for an individual with adevelopmental disability in a community based setting, the bureaushall give equal consideration based on need between:
        (1) individuals who resided with a family member, relative, orguardian immediately before the community based residentialplacement; and
        (2) individuals being placed from:
            (A) a state developmental center;
            (B) an intermediate care facility; or
            (C) a nursing facility.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.80.

IC 12-11-2.1-6
Approval of placement in intermediate care facility
    Sec. 6. The bureau may not approve the initial placement of adevelopmentally disabled individual in an intermediate care facilityfor the mentally retarded serving more than eight (8) individuals ora nursing facility unless:
        (1) the individual has medical needs; and
        (2) the placement is appropriate to the individual's needs.
If the placement is in a nursing facility, that placement must beappropriate to an individual's needs based upon preadmissionscreening conducted under IC 12-10-12.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34.

IC 12-11-2.1-7
Service plan for individual discharged or on outpatient status fromstate institution
    Sec. 7. Before an individual with a developmental disability is:
        (1) discharged from a state institution; or
        (2) placed on outpatient status under IC 12-26-14 by a stateinstitution;
the bureau shall develop a service plan for the individual undersection 2 of this chapter.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.81.

IC 12-11-2.1-8
Monitoring compliance with plan while outpatient
    Sec. 8. If an individual with a developmental disability committed

to a state developmental center is placed on outpatient status underIC 12-26-14, the bureau shall monitor the individual's compliancewith the individual's service plan during the period that the individualis in outpatient status.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.82.

IC 12-11-2.1-9
Memorandum of understanding concerning referrals
    Sec. 9. The division of mental health and addiction and thedivision shall enter into a memorandum of understanding concerningreferrals to the bureau of developmentally disabled individualsdischarged from or on an outpatient status from a state institutionoperated by the division of mental health and addiction.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.215-2001,SEC.39.

IC 12-11-2.1-10
Personal and vocational counselors required
    Sec. 10. The division shall require service coordination personneland vocational counselors to coordinate their services.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34.

IC 12-11-2.1-11
Decertified individuals receiving services; resources
    Sec. 11. (a) An individual who:
        (1) is receiving services for individuals with a developmentaldisability that are funded by Medicaid; and
        (2) has been decertified by the office because the individualfails to meet appropriate federal level of care requirements;
must continue to receive the same services, unless an appropriateindividual service plan has been developed outlining the servicesneeded by the individual to live in the least restrictive environment.
    (b) After available federal, local, and individual resources havebeen used, unencumbered state appropriations that are available, asdetermined by the budget director, must be used to implement plansdeveloped under subsection (a).
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34. Amended by P.L.99-2007,SEC.83.

IC 12-11-2.1-12
Rules
    Sec. 12. The director of the division may adopt rules underIC 4-22-2 to carry out this chapter.
As added by P.L.272-1999, SEC.34.