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[Utah Code Table of Contents]
[TITLE 26. Table of Contents]
[CHAPTER 18. Table of Contents]
26-18-401 Medicaid waiver.
(1) (a) Before July 1, 1995, the division shall submit to the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services an application for a Medicaid Waiver under 42 U.S.C. Section 1315. The purpose of the waiver is to expand the coverage of the Medicaid program, and to the extent permissible under the waiver, private health insurance plans to low income, otherwise uninsured persons who are in eligibility categories not traditionally served by the Medicaid program.
(b) Prior to submitting the application under Subsection (1)(a), the department shall submit to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee a summary of the application and proposal for implementing the waiver.
(c) Prior to adopting any rules or policies to implement the waiver, the department shall submit to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee the proposed rules and policies.
(2) Implementation and execution of this waiver by the department will be within appropriations from the Legislature.
(3) The department shall establish by rule the policies governing eligibility, income limitations, cost sharing, participating in private insurance plans, benefit plan, and voluntary employee enrollment by employers who volunteer to participate.
(4) The department shall provide an annual report to the
Health and Human Services Interim Committee on the progress
and results of the waiver implementation.
2001
26-18-402 Medicaid Restricted Account.
(1) There is created a restricted account in the General Fund known as the Medicaid Restricted Account.
(2) (a) Any general funds appropriated to the department for the state plan for medical assistance or for the Division of Health Care Financing that are not expended by the department in the fiscal year for which the general funds were appropriated and which are not otherwise designated as nonlapsing shall lapse into the Medicaid Restricted Account.
(b) The account shall earn interest and all interest earned shall be deposited into the account.
(c) The Legislature may appropriate monies in the restricted
account to fund programs that expand medical assistance coverage
and private health insurance plans to low income persons
who have not traditionally been served by Medicaid, including
the Utah Children's Health Insurance Program created in Chapter
40.
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