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UTAH STATE PLAN UNDER TITLE XIX
OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Note: Parenthesis (#) indicates page number

SECTION 1 - SINGLE STATE AGENCY ORGANIZATION (2)
        1.1 Designation and Authority (2)
        1.2 Organization for Administration (7)
        1.3 Statewide Operation (8)
        1.4 State Medical Care Advisory Committee (9)
        1.5 Pediatric Immunization Program (9a)  
SECTION 2 - COVERAGE AND ELIGIBILITY (10)
        2.1 Application, Determination of Eligibility and Furnishing Medicaid (10)  
        2.2 Coverage and Conditions of Eligibility (12)  
        2.3 Residence (13)
        2.4 Blindness (14)
        2.5 Disability (15)
        2.6 Financial Eligibility (16)
        2.7 Medicaid Furnished Out-of-State (18)
SECTION 3 - SERVICES: GENERAL PROVISIONS (19)
        3.1 Amount, Duration and Scope of Services (19)
        3.2 Coordination of Medicaid with Medicare and Other Insurance (29)
        3.3 Medicaid for Individuals Age 65 or Over in Institutions for Mental Diseases (30)
        3.4 Special Requirements Applicable to Sterilization Procedures (31)
        3.5 Families Receiving Extended Medicaid Benefits (31a)

SECTION 4 - GENERAL PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION (32)
        4.1 Methods of Administration (32)
        4.2 Hearings for Applicants and Recipients (33)
        4.3 Safeguarding Information on Applicants and Recipients (34)
        4.4 Medicaid Quality Control (35)
        4.5 Medicaid Agency Fraud Detection and Investigation Program (36)
        4.6 Reports (37)
        4.7 Maintenance of Records (38)
        4.8 Availability of Agency Program Manuals (39)
        4.9 Reporting Provider Payments to the Internal Revenue Service (40)
        4.10 Free Choice of Providers (41)
        4.11 Relations with Standard-Setting and Survey Agencies (42)
        4.12 Consultation to Medical Facilities (44)
        4.13 Required Provider Agreement (45)
        4.14 Utilization/Quality Control (46)
        4.15 Inspections of Care in Intermediate Care Facilities for the Mentally
                Retarded, Facilities Providing Inpatient Psychiatric Services for 
                Individuals Under 21, and Mental Hospitals (51)
        4.16 Relations with State Health and Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and
                Title V Grantees (52)
        4.17 Liens and Adjustments or Recoveries (53)
        4.18 Recipient Cost Sharing and Similar Charges (54)
        4.19 Payment for Services (57)
        4.20 Direct Payments to Certain Recipients for Physicians or Dentists
                Services (67)
        4.21 Prohibition Against Reassignment of Provider Claims (68)
        4.22 Third Party Liability (69)
        4.23 Use of Contracts (71)
        4.24 Standards for Payments for Nursing Facility and Intermediate Care
                Facility Services for the Mentally Retarded Services (72)
        4.25 Program for Licensing Administrators of Nursing Homes (73)
        4.26 Drug Utilization Review Program (74)
        4.27 Disclosure of Survey Information and Provider or Contractor Evaluation (75)
        4.28 Appeals Process (76)
        4.29 Conflict of Interest Provisions (77)
        4.30 Exclusion of Providers and Suspension of Practitioners and Other Individuals
        4.31 Disclosure of Information by Providers and Fiscal Agents (79)
        4.32 Income and Eligibility Verification System (79)
        4.33 Medicaid Eligibility Cards for Homeless Individuals (79a)
        4.34 Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (79b)
        4.35 Enforcement of Compliance for Nursing Facilities (79c)
        4.36 Required Coordination Between the Medicaid and WIC Programs (79d)
        4.38 Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation for Nursing Facilities
        4.39 Preadmission Screening and Annual Resident Review in Nursing Facilities
        4.41 Resident Assessment for Nursing Facilities (79x)

SECTION 5 PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION (80)
        5.1 Standards of Personnel Administration (80)
        5.2 RESERVED (81)
        5.3 Training Programs: Sub professional and Volunteer Programs (82)

SECTION 6 - FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION (83)
        6.1 Fiscal Policies and Accountability (83)
        6.2 Cost Allocation (84)
        6.3 State Financial Participation (85)

SECTION 7 - GENERAL PROVISIONS (86)
        7.1 Plan Amendments (86)
        7.2 Nondiscrimination (87)
        7.4 State Governor's Review (89)
LIST OF ATTACHMENTS No. Title of Attachment
*1.1-A Attorney General?s Certification
 1.2-A Description, Function and Organization of State Agency
 1.2-B Organization and Function of Medical Assistance Unit
 1.2-C Professional Medical Personnel and Supporting Staff
 1.2-D Description of Staff Making Eligibility Determination
 2.1-A Definition of an HMO that Is Not Federally Qualified
*2.2-A Groups Covered and Agencies Responsible for Eligibility Determination
        * Supplement 1 - Reasonable Classification of Individuals Under the Age of
          21, 20, 19 and 18
        * Supplement 2 - Non-Financial Criteria
        * Supplement 3 - Method of Determining Cost Effectiveness of Caring for 
          Certain Disabled Children at Home
*2.6-A Eligibility Conditions and Requirements
        * Supplement 1 - Income Eligibility Levels - Categorically Needy, Medically
          Needy and Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries
        * Supplement 2 - Resource Levels - Categorically Needy and Medically Needy
        * Supplement 3 - Reasonable Limits on Amounts for Necessary Medical or
          Remedial Care Not Covered Under Medicaid
        * Supplement 4 - Methodologies for Treatment of Income That Differ From Those
          of the SSI Program
        * Supplement 5 - Methodologies for Treatment of Resources that Differ from 
          Those of the SSI Program
        * Supplement 5a - Methodologies for Treatment of Resources for Individuals 
          with Incomes Up to a Percentage of the Federal Poverty Level
        * Supplement 6 - Standards for Optional State Supplementary Payments
        * Supplement 7 - Income Levels Categorically Needy Who Are Covered Under
          Requirements More Restrictive Than SSI
        * Supplement 8 - Resource Standards for Categorically Needy
        * Supplement 8a - More Liberal Methods of Treating Income Under Section
          1902(r)(2) of the Act
        * Supplement 8b - More Liberal Methods of Treating Resources Under 
            Section 1902(r)(2) of the Act
        * Supplement 9 - Transfer of Resources
        * Supplement 9a - Transfer of Assets
        * Supplement 10 - Consideration of Medicaid Qualifying Trusts - Undue Hardship
        * Supplement 10a - Transfer of Assets - Undue Hardship
        * Supplement 11 - Cost-effective Methods for COBRA Groups
        * Supplement 13 - Section 1924 Provisions
        * Supplement 14 - Eligibility Conditions and Requirement

*3.1-A Amount, Duration, and Scope of Medical and Remedial Care and Services Provided to the Categorically Needy
        * Supplement 1 - Case Management Services
*3.1-B Amount, Duration, and Scope of Services Provided Medically Needy Groups
        * Supplement 1 - Case Management Services
 3.1-C Standards and Methods of Assuring High Quality Care
 3.1-D Methods of Providing Transportation
*3.1-E Coverage of Organ Transplant Services

 

4.11-A Standards for Institutions

4.16-A Cooperative Arrangements with State Health and State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies and with Title V Grantees

4.17-A Liens and Adjustments or Recoveries

*4.18-A Charges Imposed on Categorically Needy
*4.18-B Medically Needy - Premium  
*4.18-C Charges Imposed on Medically Needy for Services
*4.18-D Premiums Imposed on Low Income Pregnant Women and Infants
*4.18-E Premiums Imposed on Qualified Disabled and Working Individuals

 4.19-A Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates - Inpatient Hospital Care
 4.19-B Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates - Other Types of Care
        * Supplement 1 - Payment of Medicare Part A and Part B Deductible/Coinsurance
 4.19-C Payments for Reserved Beds
 4.19-D Methods and Standards for Establishing Payment Rates - Skilled Nursing and Intermediate Care Facility Services

 4.22-A Requirements for Third Party Liability -- Identifying Liable Resources
*4.22-B Requirements for Third Party Liability -- Payment of Claims
 4.22-C Cost Effectiveness of Employer-Based Group Health Plans

 4.30 Sanctions for Psychiatric Hospitals

*4.32-A Income and Eligibility Verification System Procedures: Requests to Other State Agencies

*4.33-A Methods for Issuance of Medicaid Eligibility Cards to Homeless Individuals

 4.35-A Eligibility Conditions and Requirements, Enforcement of Compliance for Nursing Facilities
 4.35-B Alternative Remedies to Specified Remedies for Nursing Facilities
 4.35-C Temporary Management
 4.35-D Denial of Payment for New Admissions
 4.35-E Civil Money Penalty
 4.35-F State Monitoring
 4.35-G Transfer of Residents with Facility Closure
 4.35-H Additional Remedies

 4.38 Disclosure of Additional Registry Information
 4.38-A Nurse Aide Registry

 4.39 Definition of Specialized Services
 4.39-A Categorical Determinations

 

 


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