Text: SF02279 Text: SF02281 Text: SF02200 - SF02299 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 SENATE FILE 2280 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN 1 5 SERVICES FOR CERTAIN CHILD WELFARE SERVICES PROVIDERS AND 1 6 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 1 7 1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 9 1 10 Section 1. REHABILITATIVE TREATMENT CHILD WELFARE SERVICES 1 11 PROVIDERS. 1 12 1. The department of human services may adopt rules 1 13 utilizing the emergency procedures provided in subsection 4 as 1 14 necessary to implement the high-priority recommendation items 1 15 identified by the department's rehabilitative treatment 1 16 services provider regulation and quality improvement work 1 17 group listed in this section. In order to implement a listed 1 18 item, the department must determine that the item can be 1 19 implemented without additional cost to the state and, if 1 20 implementation of the item requires a state medical assistance 1 21 program plan amendment, the item must be approved by the 1 22 federal center for Medicare and Medicaid services. 1 23 2. Subject to the implementation conditions in subsection 1 24 1, the department shall adopt rules to take effect on or 1 25 before April 1, 2003, or within sixty days after receiving the 1 26 federal center's approval, whichever is later, to implement 1 27 all of the following: 1 28 a. Permitting deemed status for those providers of 1 29 services that are certified, or accredited to be in compliance 1 30 with relevant standards by the joint commission on the 1 31 accreditation of health care organizations or the council on 1 32 accreditation of services for families and children and that 1 33 make accreditation reports and records available to the 1 34 department. 1 35 b. Amending rules to maintain the group care standard for 2 1 a weekly average number of hours of therapy and counseling, 2 2 but determine compliance by averaging the hours per week over 2 3 the course of a month. The recoupment for failure to comply 2 4 shall be applied for a week at a time for noncompliance, not 2 5 to exceed the number of days paid. This standard shall not be 2 6 applied to a highly structured juvenile group care program. 2 7 c. Expanding the set of qualifications accepted for 2 8 rehabilitative treatment services staff positions. 2 9 d. Utilizing a weekly results summary for documentation of 2 10 the group care requirement for daily provision of skills 2 11 development. 2 12 3. Subject to the implementation conditions in subsection 2 13 1, the department shall adopt rules to take effect on or 2 14 before December 31, 2003, or within sixty days after receiving 2 15 the federal center's approval, whichever is later, to 2 16 implement all of the following: 2 17 a. Eliminating the care plan requirements regarding 2 18 licensing and treatment plan review; accepting a change in the 2 19 treatment plan in lieu of requiring the plan to be rewritten; 2 20 and permitting the provider to determine the author of the 2 21 treatment plan. 2 22 b. Revising and combining provider requirements involving 2 23 licensing, contracting, and certification so that duplicative 2 24 regulatory requirements are eliminated or minimized while the 2 25 department maintains its quality assurance role to an 2 26 appropriate degree. The requirements addressed shall include 2 27 but are not limited to those involving documentation in 2 28 records, and treatment plan provisions involving reviews, 2 29 changes, and authors. 2 30 4. The department of human services may adopt 2 31 administrative rules under section 17A.4, subsection 2, and 2 32 section 17A.5, subsection 2, paragraph "b", to implement this 2 33 section and the rules shall become effective immediately upon 2 34 filing, unless the effective date is delayed by the 2 35 administrative rules review committee, notwithstanding section 3 1 17A.4, subsection 5, and section 17A.8, subsection 9, or a 3 2 later effective date is specified in the rules. Any rules 3 3 adopted in accordance with this section shall not take effect 3 4 before the administrative rules review committee reviews the 3 5 rules. Any rules adopted in accordance with this section 3 6 shall also be published as notice of intended action as 3 7 provided in section 17A.4. 3 8 Sec. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. This Act, being deemed of 3 9 immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment. 3 10 3 11 3 12 3 13 MARY E. KRAMER 3 14 President of the Senate 3 15 3 16 3 17 3 18 BRENT SIEGRIST 3 19 Speaker of the House 3 20 3 21 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and 3 22 is known as Senate File 2280, Seventy-ninth General Assembly. 3 23 3 24 3 25 3 26 MICHAEL E. MARSHALL 3 27 Secretary of the Senate 3 28 Approved , 2002 3 29 3 30 3 31 3 32 THOMAS J. VILSACK 3 33 Governor
Text: SF02279 Text: SF02281 Text: SF02200 - SF02299 Text: SF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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