Section 27-2-12.6 - Medicaid payments; managed care.
27-2-12.6. Medicaid payments; managed care.
A. The department shall provide for a statewide, managed care system to provide cost-efficient, preventive, primary and acute care for medicaid recipients by July 1, 1995.
B. The managed care system shall ensure:
(1) access to medically necessary services, particularly for medicaid recipients with chronic health problems;
(2) to the extent practicable, maintenance of the rural primary care delivery infrastructure;
(3) that the department's approach is consistent with national and state health care reform principles; and
(4) to the maximum extent possible that medicaid-eligible individuals are not identified as such except as necessary for billing purposes.
C. The department may exclude nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for the mentally retarded, medicaid in-home and community-based waiver services and residential and community-based mental health services for children with serious emotional disorders from the provisions of this section.