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234.7 DEPARTMENT DUTIES.
1. The department of human services shall comply with the
provision associated with child foster care licensees under chapter
237 that requires that a child's foster parent be included in, and be
provided timely notice of, planning and review activities associated
with the child, including but not limited to permanency planning and
placement review meetings, which shall include discussion of the
child's rehabilitative treatment needs.
2. a. The department of human services shall submit a waiver
request to the United States department of health and human services
as necessary to provide coverage under the medical assistance program
for not more than three hundred children at any one time who are
described by both of the following:
(1) The child needs behavioral health care services and qualifies
for the care level provided by a psychiatric medical institution for
children licensed under chapter 135H.
(2) The child is in need of treatment to cure or alleviate
serious mental illness or disorder, or emotional damage as evidenced
by severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or untoward aggressive
behavior toward self or others and whose parent, guardian, or
custodian is unable to provide such treatment.
b. The waiver request shall provide for appropriately
addressing the needs of children described in paragraph "a" by
implementing any of the following options: using a wraparound
services approach, renegotiating the medical assistance program
contract provisions for behavioral health services, or applying
another approach for appropriately meeting the children's needs.
c. If federal approval of the waiver request is not received,
the department shall submit options to the governor and general
assembly to meet the needs of such children through a state-funded
program. Section History: Recent Form
95 Acts, ch 182, §14; 2005 Acts, ch 117, §3; 2008 Acts, ch 1032,
§38
Referred to in § 249J.13
