CO Code § 25.5-6-606 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing|Article 6 - Colorado Medical Assistance Act - Long-Term Care|Part 6 - Home- and Community-Based Services for Persons With Major Mental Health Disorders|§ 25.5-6-606. Implementation of Program for Persons With Mental Health Disorders Authorized - Federal Waiver - Duties of the Department of Health Care Policy and Financing and the Department of Human Services

  The state department is authorized to seek any necessary waiver from the federal government to develop and implement a home- and community-based services program for persons with major mental health disorders. The program must be designed to provide home- and community-based services to eligible persons. Eligibility may be limited to persons who meet the level of services provided in a nursing facility, and services for eligible persons may be established in state board rules to the extent such eligibility criteria and services are authorized or required by federal waiver. The program must include services provided under the consumer-directed care service model, part 11 of this article 6.    The state department and the department of human services shall provide a system of reimbursement for services provided pursuant to this part 6 that encourages the most cost-effective provision of services.    The state department and the department of human services shall, subject to appropriation, use available federal, state, local, or private funds, including but not limited to medicaid funds available under Title XIX of the federal “Social Security Act”, as amended, to carry out the purposes of this part 6.    The state department may include in the memorandum of understanding with the department of human services provisions that allow the department of human services to certify agencies as medicaid providers for the purposes of this part 6, to adopt fiscal and administrative procedures, to review plans of care, to recommend reimbursement rates, to make recommendations regarding the scope, duration, and content of programs and the eligibility of persons for specific services provided pursuant to this part 6, and to fulfill any other responsibilities necessary to implement this part 6. However, the provisions shall be consistent with the designation of the state department as the single state agency in section 25.5-4-104.    The executive director and the state board shall promulgate such rules regarding this part 6 as are necessary to fulfill the obligations of the state department as the single state agency to administer medical assistance programs in accordance with Title XIX of the federal “Social Security Act”, as amended.    The department of human services shall promulgate such rules as are necessary to perform its function pursuant to this part 6. Such rules shall be promulgated in accordance with section 24-4-103, C.R.S., and shall be consistent with the rules of the executive director and the state board.    In the event a direct conflict arises between the rules of the state department promulgated pursuant to subsection (5) of this section and the rules of the department of human services promulgated pursuant to subsection (6) of this section, regarding implementation of this part 6, the rules of the state department shall control.     History. Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1952, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2018: (1) amended,(SB 18-091), ch. 35, p. 389, § 31, effective August 8.    Editor's note:   This section is similar to former § 26-4-675 as it existed prior to 2006.   Cross references:   For the legislative declaration in SB 18-091, see section 1 of chapter 35, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.