249A.2 - DEFINITIONS.
249A.2 DEFINITIONS.
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.
11. "Retained life estate" means any of the following:
a. A life estate created by the recipient or recipient's
spouse, in which either the recipient or the recipient's spouse held
any interest in the property at the time of the creation of the life
estate.
b. A life estate created for the benefit of the recipient or
the recipient's spouse in property in which either the recipient or
the recipient's spouse held any interest in the property within five
years prior to the creation of the life estate. Section History: Early Form
[C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 249A.2] Section History: Recent Form
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; 2002 Acts, ch 1086, §1, 21
Referred to in § 249A.4, 249B.1, 249F.1, 633C.1