House Journal: Page 1591: Thursday, April 26, 2001
13 voluntary admission to a mental hospital established
14 by chapter 226 is unable to pay the costs of
15 hospitalization or those responsible for the person
16 are unable to pay the costs, application for
17 authorization of voluntary admission must be made
18 through a single entry point process before
19 application for admission is made to the hospital.
20 The person's county of legal settlement shall be
21 determined through the single entry point process and
22 if the admission is approved through the single entry
23 point process, the person's admission to a mental
24 health hospital shall be authorized as a voluntary
25 case. The authorization shall be issued on forms
26 provided by the administrator. The costs of the
27 hospitalization shall be paid by the county of legal
28 settlement to the director of revenue and finance
29 department of human services and credited to the
30 general fund of the state, providing the mental health
31 hospital rendering the services has certified to the
32 county auditor of the county of legal settlement the
33 amount chargeable to the county and has sent a
34 duplicate statement of the charges to the director of
35 revenue and finance department of human services. A
36 county shall not be billed for the cost of a patient
37 unless the patient's admission is authorized through
38 the single entry point process. The mental health
39 institute and the county shall work together to locate
40 appropriate alternative placements and services, and
41 to educate patients and family members of patients
42 regarding such alternatives.
43 All the provisions of chapter 230 shall apply to
44 such voluntary patients so far as is applicable.
45 The provisions of this section and of section
46 229.41 shall apply to all voluntary inpatients or
47 outpatients either away from or at the institution
48 heretofore or hereafter receiving mental health
49 services.
50 Should any If a county fail fails to pay these
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1 bills the billed charges within forty-five days from
2 the date the county auditor received the certificate
3 certification statement from the superintendent, the
4 director of revenue and finance department of human
5 services shall charge the delinquent county the
6 penalty of one percent per month on and after forty-
7 five days from the date the county received the
8 certificate certification statement until paid. Such
9 The penalties received shall be credited to the
10 general fund of the state.
11 Sec. . Section 230.20, subsection 1, unnumbered
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