249J.9  Future benefits and provider network growth.
  1.  Benefits.
  a.  The department shall not provide services to expansion population members that are in addition to the services originally designated by the department pursuant to section 249J.6, without express authorization provided by the general assembly.
  b.  The department, upon the recommendation of the clinicians advisory panel established pursuant to section 249J.18, may change the scope and duration of any of the available expansion population services, but this subsection shall not be construed to authorize the department to make expenditures in excess of the amount appropriated for benefits for the expansion population.
  2.  Expansion population provider network.
  a.  The department shall not expand the expansion population provider network unless the department is able to pay for expansion population services provided by such providers at the full benefit recipient rates.
  b.  The department may limit access to the expansion population provider network by the expansion population to the extent the department deems necessary to meet the financial obligations to each provider under the expansion population provider network. This subsection shall not be construed to authorize the department to make any expenditure in excess of the amount appropriated for benefits for the expansion population.
2005 Acts, ch 167, §9, 66; 2010 Acts, ch 1141, §7