249J.14 - HEALTH PROMOTION PARTNERSHIPS.
249J.14 HEALTH PROMOTION PARTNERSHIPS.
1. Services for adults at state mental health institutes.
Beginning July 1, 2005, inpatient and outpatient hospital services at
the state hospitals for persons with mental illness designated
pursuant to section 226.1 shall be covered services under the medical
assistance program.
2. Dietary counseling. By July 1, 2006, the department shall
design and begin implementation of a strategy to provide dietary
counseling and support to child and adult recipients of medical
assistance and to expansion population members to assist these
recipients and members in avoiding excessive weight gain or loss and
to assist in development of personal weight loss programs for
recipients and members determined by the recipient's or member's
health care provider to be clinically overweight.
3. Electronic medical records. By October 1, 2006, the
department shall develop a practical strategy for expanding
utilization of electronic medical recordkeeping by providers under
the medical assistance program and the expansion population provider
network. The plan shall focus, initially, on medical assistance
program recipients and expansion population members whose quality of
care would be significantly enhanced by the availability of
electronic medical recordkeeping.
4. Provider incentive payment programs. By January 1, 2007,
the department shall design and implement a provider incentive
payment program for providers under the medical assistance program
and providers included in the expansion population provider network
based upon evaluation of public and private sector models.
5. Health assessment for medical assistance recipients with
mental retardation or developmental disabilities. The department
shall work with the university of Iowa colleges of medicine,
dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health, and the university
of Iowa hospitals and clinics to determine whether the physical and
dental health of recipients of medical assistance who are persons
with mental retardation or developmental disabilities are being
regularly and fully addressed and to identify barriers to such care.
The department shall report the department's findings to the governor
and the general assembly by January 1, 2007.
6. Smoking cessation. The department, in collaboration with
Iowa department of public health programs relating to tobacco use
prevention and cessation, shall implement a program with the goal of
reducing smoking among recipients of medical assistance who are
children to less than one percent and among recipients of medical
assistance and expansion population members who are adults to less
than ten percent, by July 1, 2007.
7. Dental home for children. By December 31, 2010, every
recipient of medical assistance who is a child twelve years of age or
younger shall have a designated dental home and shall be provided
with the dental screenings, preventive services, diagnostic services,
treatment services, and emergency services as defined under the early
and periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment program.
8. Reports. The department shall report on a quarterly basis
to the medical assistance projections and assessment council
established pursuant to section 249J.20 and the medical assistance
advisory council created pursuant to section 249A.4B, regarding the
health promotion partnerships described in this section. To the
greatest extent feasible, and if applicable to a data set, the data
reported shall include demographic information concerning the
population served including but not limited to factors, such as race
and economic status, as specified by the department. Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 167, §15, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §29; 2008 Acts, ch
1188, §48
Referred to in § 135.159, 249J.23