As used in this chapter:
1. "Additional medical assistance" means payment of all or part of the costs of any or all of the care and services authorized to be provided by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1905(a), paragraphs (6), (7), (9) to (16), and (18), as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a), pars. (6), (7), (9) to (16), and (18).
2. "Department" means the department of human services.
3. "Director" means the director of human services.
4. "Discretionary medical assistance" means medical assistance or additional medical assistance provided to individuals whose income and resources are in excess of eligibility limitations but are insufficient to meet all of the costs of necessary medical care and services, provided that if the assistance includes services in institutions for mental diseases or intermediate care facilities for persons with mental retardation, or both, for any group of such individuals, the assistance also includes for all covered groups of such individuals at least the care and services enumerated in Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1905(a), paragraphs (1) through (5), and (17), as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a), pars. (1) through (5), and (17), or any seven of the care and services enumerated in Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1905(a), paragraphs (1) through (7) and (9) through (18), as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a), pars. (1) through (7), and (9) through (18).
5. "Family investment program" means the family investment program eligibility requirements under chapter 239B, except to the extent federal law requires application of the eligibility requirements under chapter 239, Code 1997, as in effect on July 16, 1996.
6. "Group health plan cost sharing" means payment under the medical assistance program of a premium, a coinsurance amount, a deductible amount, or any other cost sharing obligation for a group health plan as required by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1906, as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396e.
7. "Medical assistance" means payment of all or part of the costs of the care and services required to be provided by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1905(a), paragraphs (1) through (5), and (17), as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(a), pars. (1) through (5), and (17).
8. "Medicare cost sharing" means payment under the medical assistance program of a premium, a coinsurance amount, or a deductible amount for federal Medicare as provided by Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, section 1905(p)(3), as codified in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(p)(3).
9. "Provider" means an individual, firm, corporation, association, or institution which is providing or has been approved to provide medical assistance to recipients under this chapter.
10. "Recipient" means a person who receives medical assistance under this chapter.
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 249A.2]
83 Acts, ch 96, § 157, 159; 84 Acts, ch 1297, § 2; 89 Acts, ch 104, § 1; 90 Acts, ch 1039, § 15; 91 Acts, ch 107, §11; 91 Acts, ch 158, § 1, 2; 93 Acts, ch 54, §5; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113; 97 Acts, ch 41, § 25
Referred to in § 249A.4, 249B.1, 249F.1, 633.707
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