2011 Iowa Code
TITLE VI HUMAN SERVICES
SUBTITLE 6 CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
CHAPTER 249J IOWACARE
249J.24 IowaCare account.

249J.24 IowaCare account.

1. An IowaCare account is created in the state treasury under the authority of the department of human services. Moneys appropriated from the general fund of the state to the account, moneys received as federal financial participation funds under the expansion population provisions of this chapter and credited to the account, moneys received for disproportionate share hospitals and credited to the account, moneys received for graduate medical education and credited to the account, proceeds distributed from the county treasurer as specified in subsection 4, and moneys from any other source credited to the account shall be deposited in the account. Moneys deposited in or credited to the account shall be used only as provided in appropriations or distributions from the account for the purposes specified in the appropriation or distribution. Moneys in the account shall be appropriated to the university of Iowa hospitals and clinics and to a publicly owned acute care teaching hospital located in a county with a population over three hundred fifty thousand for the purposes provided in the federal law making the funds available or as specified in the state appropriation and shall be distributed as determined by the department.

2. The account shall be separate from the general fund of the state and shall not be considered part of the general fund of the state. The moneys in the account shall not be considered revenue of the state, but rather shall be funds of the account. The moneys in the account are not subject to section 8.33 and shall not be transferred, used, obligated, appropriated, or otherwise encumbered, except to provide for the purposes of this chapter. Notwithstanding section 12C.7, subsection 2, interest or earnings on moneys deposited in the account shall be credited to the account.

3. The department shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 17A to administer the account.

4. a. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, for the collection of taxes levied under section 347.7, the county treasurer of a county with a population over three hundred fifty thousand in which a publicly owned acute care teaching hospital is located shall distribute the proceeds collected pursuant to section 347.7 in a total amount of thirty-eight million dollars annually, which would otherwise be distributed to the county hospital, to the treasurer of state for deposit in the IowaCare account under this section as follows:

(1) The first nineteen million dollars in collections pursuant to section 347.7 between July 1 and December 31 annually shall be distributed to the treasurer of state for deposit in the IowaCare account and collections during this time period in excess of nineteen million dollars shall be distributed to the acute care teaching hospital identified in this subsection.

(2) The first nineteen million dollars in collections pursuant to section 347.7 between January 1 and June 30 annually shall be distributed to the treasurer of state for deposit in the IowaCare account and collections during this time period in excess of nineteen million dollars shall be distributed to the acute care teaching hospital identified in this subsection.

b. The board of trustees of the acute care teaching hospital identified in this subsection and the department shall execute an agreement under chapter 28E annually by July 1, to specify the requirements relative to distribution of the proceeds and the distribution of moneys to the hospital from the IowaCare account. The agreement shall include provisions relating to exceptions to the deadline for submission of clean claims as required pursuant to section 249J.7 and provisions relating to data reporting requirements regarding the expansion population. The agreement may also include a provision allowing such hospital to limit access to such hospital by expansion population members based on residency of the member, if such provision reflects the policy of such hospital regarding indigent patients as adopted by its board of hospital trustees.

c. Notwithstanding the specified amount of proceeds to be distributed under this subsection, if the amount allocated that does not require federal matching funds under an appropriation in a subsequent fiscal year to such hospital for medical and surgical treatment of indigent patients, for provision of services to expansion population members, and for medical education, is reduced from the amount allocated that does not require federal matching funds under the appropriation for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, the amount of proceeds required to be distributed under this subsection in that subsequent fiscal year shall be reduced in the same amount as the amount allocated that does not require federal matching funds under that appropriation.

2005 Acts, ch 167, §25, 66; 2006 Acts, ch 1184, §117, 127; 2009 Acts, ch 110, §3; 2010 Acts, ch 1141, §19

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