249J.20 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTIONS AND ASSESSMENT COUNCIL.
249J.20 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTIONS AND ASSESSMENT
COUNCIL.
1. A medical assistance projections and assessment council is
created consisting of the following members:
a. The co-chairpersons and ranking members of the legislative
joint appropriations subcommittee on health and human services, or a
member of the appropriations subcommittee designated by the
co-chairperson or ranking member.
b. The chairpersons and ranking members of the human
resources committees of the senate and the house of representatives,
or a member of the committee designated by the chairperson or ranking
member.
c. The chairpersons and ranking members of the appropriations
committees of the senate and the house of representatives, or a
member of the committee designated by the chairperson or ranking
member.
2. The members of the council shall serve terms as provided in
section 69.16B.
3. The council shall meet as often as deemed necessary, but shall
meet at least annually. The council may use sources of information
deemed appropriate, and the department and other agencies of state
government shall provide information to the council as requested.
The legislative services agency shall provide staff support to the
council.
4. The council shall select a chairperson, annually, from its
membership. A majority of the members of the council shall
constitute a quorum.
5. The council shall do all of the following:
a. Make cost projections for the medical assistance program
and the expansion population.
b. Review reports on all initiatives under this chapter,
including those provisions in the design, development, and
implementation phases, and make additional recommendations for
medical assistance program and expansion population reform on an
annual basis.
c. Review annual audited financial statements relating to the
expansion population submitted by the providers included in the
expansion population provider network.
d. Review reports on the success of the Iowa Medicaid
enterprise based upon the contractual performance measures for each
Iowa Medicaid enterprise partner.
e. Assure that the expansion population is managed at all
times within funding limitations. In assuring such compliance, the
council shall assume that supplemental funding will not be available
for coverage of services provided to the expansion population.
6. The department of human services, the department of
management, and the legislative services agency shall utilize a joint
process to arrive at an annual consensus projection for medical
assistance program and expansion population expenditures for
submission to the council. By December 15 of each fiscal year, the
council shall review the consensus projection of expenditures for the
fiscal year beginning the following July 1. Section History: Recent Form
2005 Acts, ch 167, §21, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1184, §116, 127; 2008
Acts, ch 1156, §37, 58; 2008 Acts, ch 1187, §125
Referred to in § 249J.8, 249J.14, 249J.15, 249J.18