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NH Rev Stat § 126-A:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:12 - Small Claims.

    126-A:12 Small Claims. –||I. The commissioner may use funds accruing to the department of health and human services for the payment of small claims of $100 or less occasioned by non-insured personal loss or accidents due to the activities of the department. Any person claiming loss or damage due to the activities of the department in an amount of $100 or less may make application to the commissioner for payment. The application shall be filed within 60 days of the date the loss or damage is incurred. If the commissioner, upon investigation, is of the opinion that the loss or damage was caused as a result of the activities of the department, the commissioner shall make payment to the claimant from department funds.||II. Any person claiming loss or damage due to the activities of the department in an amount of less than $500, but greater than $100, may make application to the commissioner for payment of such claim. The application shall be filed within 60 days of the date the loss or damage is incurred. If the commissioner, upon investigation, is of the opinion that the loss or damage was caused because of the activities of the department, the commissioner shall submit a recommendation to the board of claims for approval of payment to the claimant from department funds.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:12-a - Prompt Payment Required.

    126-A:12-a Prompt Payment Required. –||The department shall pay health care providers, including dental providers, within 45 days of receipt of a clean claim for services rendered to medicaid recipients. For the purposes of this section "clean claim" means a claim for payment of covered health care expenses that is submitted to the department on the department's standard claim form using the most current published procedural codes, with all the required fields completed with correct and complete information in accordance with the department's published filing requirements.|||Source. 2000, 274:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2001; 314:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2001.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:13 - Oversight Committee; Establishment; Purpose.

    126-A:13 Oversight Committee;  Establishment;  Purpose. –||I. There shall be an oversight committee on health and human services consisting of the following members :||(a) Three members of the senate, at least one of whom shall be a member of the senate health and human services committee and one of whom shall be a member of the senate finance committee, appointed by the president of the senate.||(b)(1) Five members of the house of representatives, 3 of whom shall be from the health, human services and elderly affairs committee, and one of whom shall be from the house finance committee division responsible for the department of health and human services, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.||(2) Two members of the house of representatives, one of whom shall be appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, and one of whom shall be appointed by the leader of the minority party of the house of representatives, shall be available to serve, at the request of the committee chairperson, as an alternate member for an absent committee member. An alternate member shall have full voting authority while serving for an absent committee member.||II. Membership on the oversight committee shall be for the biennium and shall be coterminous with membership in the general court.||III. The oversight committee on health and human services shall provide legislative oversight of the department to support a cost effective, comprehensive, coordinated system of health and human services that is family-centered and community-based. The committee shall promote greater efficiencies by consolidating and centralizing reporting requirements and other responsibilities of the department under this section to avoid duplication of efforts involving other non-regulatory boards, commissions, councils, advisory committees, and task forces.|||Source. 1995, 310:1. 1998, 140:1. 2005, 177:21. 2010, 268:1, 2, eff. Sept. 4, 2010. 2020, 37:21, eff. July 29, 2020. 2021, 211:3, eff. Aug. 11, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:14 - Organization and Compensation.

    126-A:14 Organization and Compensation. –||The oversight committee shall have a chairperson who shall be chosen by vote from among the committee membership. The chairperson's term of office shall be for the biennium. The committee shall have a clerk who shall be chosen by vote by the members of the committee. The clerk's term of office shall be for the biennium. The members of the committee shall receive legislative mileage when in performance of their duties.|||Source. 1995, 310:1. 1998, 140:1, eff. Aug. 7, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:16 - Repealed by by 1995, 310:3, II, eff. Dec. 31, 1998.

    126-A:16 Repealed by by 1995, 310:3, II, eff. Dec. 31, 1998. –|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:17-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:17-a - Repealed by 2018, 298:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.

    126-A:17-a Repealed by 2018, 298:2, eff. Nov. 1, 2020. –|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:18 - Primary Preventative Health Services.

    126-A:18 Primary Preventative Health Services. –||The commissioner shall:||I. (a) Develop primary preventive health services for low-income and underserved populations.||(b) Establish a network of primary care and family support services for children with chronic illness.||(c) Recruit and establish retention of primary care practitioners in rural communities and areas of high primary care needs.||(d) Provide technical assistance to communities, health care agencies, and primary care providers developing comprehensive care services.||II. On June 30, 1999, any unexpended funds appropriated for the purposes of this section shall lapse to the fund from which they were appropriated.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:18-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:18-a - Rate Setting for Home Health Services.

    126-A:18-a Rate Setting for Home Health Services. –||I. The commissioner of health and human services shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A to establish a rate setting methodology which establishes unit medicaid reimbursement rates for home health services which reflect the average cost to deliver services. The commissioner shall consider the factors of economy, efficiency, quality of care, and access to care, in accordance with guidelines in federal regulations.||II. The department of health and human services shall annually on or before October 1 establish unit rates for home health services paid under medicaid which better reflect the average cost to deliver services.||III. The commissioner shall make a biennial report commencing on November 1, 2017 and thereafter before November 1 of odd-numbered years relative to the rates for home health services, to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, and the chairpersons of the house and senate finance committees.|||Source. 1997, 346:2, eff. Aug. 23, 1997. 2015, 259:17, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:18-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:18-b - Repealed by 2013, 80:1, eff. Aug. 18, 2013.

    126-A:18-b Repealed by 2013, 80:1, eff. Aug. 18, 2013. –|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:19 - Community Living Facilities.

    126-A:19 Community Living Facilities. –||The commissioner shall develop a statewide program of community living facilities for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses. The commissioner shall be responsible for the selection, certification, and monitoring of such community living facilities in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 541-A. The commissioner shall also be responsible for prior approval of all individual residential placements and shall adopt rules relative to monitoring the care, treatment, and habilitation provided to all residents of community living facilities. Rates for enhanced family care residents shall be set according to the severity of the resident's disability. Placements of children shall be consistent with RSA 170-A, 170-C, and 170-E, as appropriate. Approval by the commissioner of an individual for placement in a community living facility shall be based on a finding by the commissioner that the community living facility is the least restrictive environment appropriate to the needs of the individual. "Least restrictive environment" means the facility, program, or service which least inhibits a person's freedom of movement, freedom of choice, and participation in the community, while achieving the purposes of habilitation and treatment.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:20 - Standards and Certification for Community Living Facilities.

    126-A:20 Standards and Certification for Community Living Facilities. –||I. The commissioner shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A to govern the establishment and operation of community living facilities. The certification of community living facilities shall be based on these rules. Certification of such community living facilities shall be on a permanent, temporary, or emergency basis in accordance with these rules. No placements shall occur in the absence of such certification. The commissioner may withdraw certification at any time the commissioner has reasonable cause to believe that there exist violations of federal, state, or local law or of department rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A pertaining to community living facilities.||II. Certifications shall be subject to periodic review and renewal by the commissioner.||III. The commissioner of the department of health and human services, after notice and hearing, pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A, may impose an administrative fine not to exceed $2,000 for each offense upon any person who violates any provision of this subdivision or rules adopted under this subdivision. Rehearings and appeals from a decision of the commissioner shall be in accordance with RSA 541. Any administrative fine imposed under this section shall not preclude the imposition of further penalties or administrative actions under this subdivision. The commissioner shall adopt rules in accordance with RSA 541-A relative to administrative fines which shall be scaled to reflect the scope and severity of the violation. The sums obtained from the levying of administrative fines under this subdivision shall be forwarded to the state treasurer to be deposited into the general fund.|||Source. 1995, 310:1. 2003, 73:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:21 - Standards for Fire Safety.

    126-A:21 Standards for Fire Safety. –||Notwithstanding RSA 153:5, 153:10-b, or any law to the contrary, the fire code applicable to single family dwellings, as defined in RSA 153:1, X, or, where applicable, single rental units in multi-unit dwellings, as defined in RSA 153:1, IX-a and VI, respectively, shall be the fire code applied by the state fire marshal and local fire departments to community living facilities housing 3 or fewer clients.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:22 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:22 - Rates for Community Living Facilities.

    126-A:22 Rates for Community Living Facilities. –||I. The commissioner shall establish rates, by rules adopted under RSA 541-A, sufficient to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health for persons in placement under this program. Payments hereunder may be made monthly by the commissioner from appropriated funds.||II. The commissioner may establish rates pursuant to RSA 167:7, I-a for certain programs administered by the department.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:23 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:23 - Repealed by 2012, 40:1, eff. July 1, 2012.

    126-A:23 Repealed by 2012, 40:1, eff. July 1, 2012. –|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:24 - Placement.

    126-A:24 Placement. –||Community living facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities shall be considered a part of the service delivery system as defined in RSA 171-A.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:25 - Purpose.

    126-A:25 Purpose. –||The purpose of this subdivision is to assist in maintaining and making available additional emergency shelter facilities and other supportive and preventive services and to assist in meeting the operating costs of such shelters and services.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:26 - Program Established.

    126-A:26 Program Established. –||There is hereby established an emergency shelter program to assist in providing safe and sanitary shelters on a short-term emergency or transitional basis for persons who are destitute, mentally ill, abandoned, or developmentally disabled, and other poor persons.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:27 - Capital Construction and Rehabilitation.

    126-A:27 Capital Construction and Rehabilitation. –||Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching grant formula basis for the capital costs of renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for use as emergency shelters for the homeless. Such organizations may also use such funds to add additional beds to existing emergency shelters, to maintain such shelters and to provide related supportive and preventive services.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:28 - Operating Funds.

    126-A:28 Operating Funds. –||Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching formula basis to provide essential services including, but not limited to, maintenance, operation, utilities, and furnishings, and to support and maintain the volunteer operational structure.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:29 - Eligibility; Grants.

    126-A:29 Eligibility;  Grants. –||I. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "private nonprofit organization" means a secular or religious organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which is exempt from taxation under subtitle A of such code. Such organization shall also have an accounting system, a voluntary board, and shall practice nondiscrimination in providing assistance.||II. No grant shall be awarded unless the commissioner makes an administrative finding of fact that the grant is primarily for the public benefit. To make a finding that the grant is primarily for public benefit, the commissioner shall find that:||(a) With respect to grants for a new shelter or additional beds for an existing shelter:||(1) That insufficient shelter facilities exist in the area; and||(2) That the proposal will increase the supply of such facilities.||(b) With respect to grants for operations, that such assistance is needed to maintain essential services or structures under RSA 126-A:29.||(c) In all cases, that the shelter is for the public use and public benefit.||(d) With respect to grants for supportive and preventive services, that such assistance will enable persons assisted to obtain permanent housing and that such services are for the public use and the public benefit.||III. If the grant is to be made to a religious organization, it must have a primary effect of neither advancing nor inhibiting religion. In awarding grants under this subdivision, the department shall give substantial weight to the performance record and general stability of the grant applicant.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:30 - Residency.

    126-A:30 Residency. –||Persons receiving short-term emergency housing under this subdivision shall continue to maintain their legal residence as it existed at the time of entering the emergency shelter.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:31 - Rulemaking.

    126-A:31 Rulemaking. –||The commissioner may adopt such rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, as the commissioner deems reasonable and necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:32 - Repealed by 2010, 368:1(41), eff. Dec. 31, 2010.

    126-A:32 Repealed by 2010, 368:1(41), eff. Dec. 31, 2010. –|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:33 - Office Established.

    126-A:33 Office Established. –||There shall be an office of reimbursements within the department of health and human services.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:34 - Duties.

    126-A:34 Duties. –||I. Subject to the direction and supervision of the commissioner, the office of reimbursements shall:||(a) Review and investigate all records of the New Hampshire hospital, Laconia developmental services, the secure psychiatric unit, the Glencliff home, and the Anna Philbrook center, relative to expenses incurred by patients, residents, or clients at such institutions, facilities, or programs or expenses incurred by patients, residents, or clients receiving care, treatment, services, or maintenance at the direction of the commissioner of health and human services, and make recommendations to the commissioner and to the respective superintendents or directors of such institutions, facilities, or programs as to the rates to be charged for the care, treatment, and maintenance of such patients, residents, or clients.||(b) Investigate the ability of patients, residents, or clients of such institutions and of the persons receiving care, treatment, maintenance, or services either in public or private institutions or otherwise at the direction of the commissioner and those legally chargeable for their support and maintenance to pay for such care, treatment, maintenance, and/or services and recommend to the commissioner the charge to be rendered.||(c) Submit monthly to the commissioner any recommended changes in the schedule of charges based upon the ability of the patient, resident, or client or those legally chargeable for their support to pay.||(d) Submit monthly to the commissioner a report setting forth any facts or information which bear upon or affect the domicile of any patient, residents, or clients of such institution, facility, or program which the office of reimbursements has found in conjunction with investigations under this subdivision.||(e) Administer estates.||(f) Serve as appraiser without certification if appointed by the probate court, notwithstanding any other provision of law.||(g) Consistent with RSA 126-A:42, II, file a notice of lien with the register of deeds of the county in which the patient or resident of any of the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34 or at a public or private institution owns real property.||II. The commissioner of health and human services shall take such action as the commissioner deems advisable.|||Source. 1995, 310:1. 1997, 215:1. 2007, 263:12. 2010, Sp. Sess., 1:27. 2011, 224:300. 2012, 228:2. 2013, 144:39, eff. July 1, 2013.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:35 - Other State Departments.

    126-A:35 Other State Departments. –||The office of reimbursements, with the approval of the commissioner, may, upon request, act on behalf of any state department, as defined in RSA 9:1, to recover any moneys due such department. The office of reimbursements shall not be liable for any expenses or costs incurred in any action brought pursuant to this section.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|
NH Rev Stat § 126-A:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 126-A - Department of Health and Human Services|Section 126-A:36 - Persons Chargeable With Support of Patients or Residents of Public Institutions.

    126-A:36 Persons Chargeable With Support of Patients or Residents of Public Institutions. –||Except as limited in RSA 126-A:43, II, expenses incurred in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34 or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the person, or the person's spouse, or, if a minor, the minor's father or mother, whose income or other resources are more than sufficient to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health, and the spouse, father and mother are declared jointly and severally liable for such expenses, unless otherwise ordered by the court.|||Source. 1995, 310:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1995.|