Any adult resident of the state may file a complaint in the office of the clerk of any juvenile court, charging that any legal resident of Iowa residing in the county where the complaint is filed is pregnant or is suffering from some malady or deformity that can probably be improved or cured or advantageously treated by medical or surgical treatment or hospital care, and that neither such person nor persons legally chargeable with the person's support are able to pay therefor.
The county general assistance director shall ascertain from the local office of human services if an applicant for the indigent patient program would qualify for medical assistance or the medically needy program under chapter 249A without the spend-down provision required pursuant to section 249A.3, subsection 2, paragraph "i". If the applicant qualifies, the patient shall be certified for medical assistance and shall not be counted under this chapter.
[SS15, § 254-b; C24, 27, 31, 35, § 4005; C39, § 3828.132; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 255.1]
91 Acts, ch 267, §226
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