2011 Iowa Code
TITLE VI HUMAN SERVICES
SUBTITLE 6 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
CHAPTER 249J IOWACARE
249J.14 Health promotion partnerships.

249J.14 Health promotion partnerships.

1. Dietary counseling. If a cost-effective strategy with a measurable return on investment or an impact on health care outcomes is identified, the department may design and implement 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.

2. Medical assistance health information technology program. The department shall develop a medical assistance health information technology program for promoting the adoption and meaningful use of electronic medical recordkeeping by providers under the medical assistance program and the Iowa Medicaid enterprise pursuant to the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub. L. No. 111-5. The department shall do all of the following:

a. Design and implement a program for distribution and monitoring of provider incentive payments, including development of a definition of meaningful use for purposes of promoting the use of electronic medical recordkeeping by providers. The department shall develop this program in collaboration with the department of public health and the electronic health information advisory council and executive committee created pursuant to section 135.156.

b. Develop the medical assistance health information technology plan as required by the centers for Medicare and Medicaid services of the United States department of health and human services. The plan shall provide detailed implementation plans for the medical assistance program for promotion of the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology by medical assistance providers and the Iowa Medicaid enterprise. The plan shall include the integration of health information technology and health information exchange with the medical assistance management information system. The plan shall be developed in collaboration with the department of public health and the electronic health information advisory council and executive committee created pursuant to section 135.156.

3. Provider incentive payment programs. If a cost-effective strategy with a measurable return on investment or an impact on health care outcomes is identified, the department may design and implement a provider incentive payment program for providers under the medical assistance program and providers included in the expansion population provider network.

4. Smoking cessation. The department, in collaboration with 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 and among expansion population members.

5. Dental home for children. The department shall enter into an interagency agreement with the department of public health for infrastructure development and oral health coordination services for recipients of medical assistance to increase access to dental care for medical assistance recipients. By December 31, 2011, 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.

6. Reports. The department shall issue a report on the department s internet website on a quarterly basis regarding any changes or updates to 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 economic status, as specified by the department.

2005 Acts, ch 167, §15, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1030, §29; 2008 Acts, ch 1188, §48; 2010 Acts, ch 1141, §11

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