Ind. Code § 12-15-1-20.4

Current through P.L. 171-2024

Section 12-15-1-20.4 - Suspension of Medicaid for delinquent child or incarcerated individual

(a) If a Medicaid recipient is:

(1) adjudicated to be a delinquent child and placed in:

(A) a community based correctional facility for children;

(B) a juvenile detention facility; or

(C) a secure facility, not including a facility licensed as a child caring institution under IC 31-27; or

(2) incarcerated in a prison or jail; and

ineligible to participate in the Medicaid program during the placement described in subdivision (1) or (2) because of federal Medicaid law, the division of family resources, upon notice that a child has been adjudicated to be a delinquent child and placed in a facility described in subdivision (1) or upon notice that a person is incarcerated in a prison or jail and placed in a facility described in subdivision (2), shall suspend the person's participation in the Medicaid program.

(b) If the division of family resources receives:

(1) a dispositional decree under IC 31-37-19-28; or

(2) a modified disposition order under IC 31-37-22-9;

and the department of correction gives the division at least forty (40) days notice that a person will be released from a facility described in subsection (a)(1)(C) or (a)(2), the division of family resources shall take action necessary to ensure that a person described in subsection (a) is eligible to participate in the Medicaid program upon the person's release, if the person is eligible to participate.

IC 12-15-1-20.4

Amended by P.L. 57-2021,SEC. 1, eff. 7/1/2021.

Amended by P.L. 152-2017,SEC. 3, eff. 7/1/2017.

Amended by P.L. 185-2015, SEC. 9, eff. 7/1/2015.

As added by P.L. 114-2009, SEC.1. Amended by P.L. 1-2010, SEC.57.