Title 17b, Title 17b: Social Services

Sec. 17b-222. (Formerly Sec. 17-294). “Humane institution” defined. Daily report. As used in this section and sections 17b-223, 17b-228, 17b-229 and 17b-745, “state humane institution” or “humane institution” means state mental hospitals, community mental health centers, treatmen…

Sec. 17b-223. (Formerly Sec. 17-295). Support in humane institutions. (a) The Comptroller shall at least annually determine the cost per capita per diem for the support of persons in state humane institutions and furnish such itemized per capita cost to the Commissioner of Admini…

Sec. 17b-224. (Formerly Sec. 17-295b). Liability of patient for per capita cost of care. A patient who is receiving or has received care in a state humane institution, his estate or both shall be liable to reimburse the state for any unpaid portion of per capita cost in accordanc…

Sec. 17b-225. (Formerly Sec. 17-295c). Availability of patient information to certain agencies. (a) The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the Department of Social Services and the United States Department of Health and Human Services shall be entitled to rec…

Sec. 17b-226. (Formerly Sec. 17-295d). Consideration of the costs mandated by collective bargaining agreements. The state shall take into consideration the costs mandated by collective bargaining agreements with certified collective bargaining agents or other agreements between e…

Sec. 17b-226a. Provider billing rates for goods and services. A pharmacy provider enrolled in any medical assistance program administered by the Department of Social Services, when billing the department for a good or service, shall bill the department the lowest amount accepted …

Sec. 17b-227. (Formerly Sec. 17-297). Payment for services in state humane institutions. All bills for services provided to Medicaid recipients by state humane institutions, as defined in section 17b-222, may be paid by the Commissioner of Social Services to the state agency that…

Sec. 17b-228. (Formerly Sec. 17-298). Court action by state to recover unpaid portion of charges. Limitation on recovery of charges from estate of deceased former humane institution patient. (a) When any person has been supported, wholly or in part, by the state in a humane insti…

Sec. 17b-229. (Formerly Sec. 17-299). Liability for prior charges. (a) No relative of a patient in a state humane institution, nor the estate of such relative, shall be liable for any portion of the cost of support of any such patient in such institution for any period prior to J…

Sec. 17b-230. (Formerly Sec. 17-300). Claim of state on death of institution patient. Limitation on recovery. Upon the death of a patient or of a person who has, at any time, been a patient in a state humane institution, the state shall have a claim against his estate for reimbur…

Sec. 17b-231. (Formerly Sec. 17-301). Refund for support of persons in state institutions. Claim for any sum due from the state as a refund for the support of any person in a state institution may be made by the person entitled thereto to the Commissioner of Administrative Servic…

Sec. 17b-232. (Formerly Sec. 17-306). Payment for board and care in boarding home, group home, chronic and convalescent hospital or other residential facility. The state, through the agency of the state-operated facility, as defined in section 17a-458, authorizing the transfer of…

Sec. 17b-233. (Formerly Sec. 17-307). Care of handicapped and other children at Newington Children's Hospital. Children with drug-related conditions not to be admitted. Newington Children's Hospital may admit any child who is handicapped or afflicted with any pediatric illness up…

Secs. 17b-234 and 17b-235. (Formerly Secs. 17-308 and 17-308a). State payment toward support of patients at Newington Children's Hospital. Payment of retroactive claims. Sections 17b-234 and 17b-235 are repealed, effective May 14, 2018. (June, 1949, 1951, 1953, S. 1441d; November…

Sec. 17b-236. (Formerly Sec. 17-309). Admission of physically disabled children to The Children's Center. When there is found in any town in this state any child of sound mind who is physically disabled or who is afflicted with poliomyelitis or rheumatic fever, or any uncontagiou…

Sec. 17b-237. (Formerly Sec. 17-310). State aid toward support of children at center. The state shall pay annually toward the support of children who have been admitted to the center in accordance with the provisions of section 17b-236 twenty-five per cent of the operating expens…

Sec. 17b-238. (Formerly Sec. 17-311). State payments to hospitals. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall establish annually the cost of services for which payment is to be made under the provisions of section 17b-239. All hospitals receiving state aid shall submit their c…

Sec. 17b-239. (Formerly Sec. 17-312). Payments to hospitals, emergency department physicians. Value-based methodologies. Readmission penalties. Compliance with federal law. Regulations. (a) Medicaid rates paid to acute care hospitals, including children's hospitals, shall be base…

Sec. 17b-239a. Payments to short-term general hospitals located in certain distressed municipalities and targeted investment communities with enterprise zones. The Department of Social Services may, within available funds, make payments to all short-term general hospitals located…

Sec. 17b-239b. Chronic disease hospitals. Prior authorization procedures. Regulations. The Commissioner of Social Services shall establish prior authorization procedures under the Medicaid program for admissions and lengths of stay in chronic disease hospitals. The Commissioner o…

Sec. 17b-239c. Interim disproportionate share payments to short-term general hospitals. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, on and after July 1, 2011, the Department of Social Services may, within available appropriations, make interim quarterly medical ass…

Sec. 17b-239d. Payments for outpatient hospital services. The Commissioner of Social Services may establish a fee schedule for the payment of any outpatient hospital services under the Medicaid program. (P.A. 11-44, S. 92.) History: P.A. 11-44 effective July 1, 2011.

Sec. 17b-239e. Hospital rate plan. Supplemental pools and payments. Quality measures. (a) For the purposes of this section, “settlement agreement” has the same meaning as provided in section 12-263z. (b) Subject to federal approval, the Department of Social Services shall establi…

Sec. 17b-240. (Formerly Sec. 17-312a). State payments to hospitals. Rates established by the Office of Health Care Access division of the Department of Public Health. Section 17b-240 is repealed, effective July 1, 2011. (P.A. 78-250, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 10-179, …

Sec. 17b-241. (Formerly Sec. 17-312b). Payments to mental health and substance abuse residential facilities and freestanding detoxification centers. (a) Any rates established by the Commissioner of Social Services in effect February 1, 1991, for mental health and substance abuse …

Sec. 17b-241a. Payments to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for targeted case management services. Submission of expenditures for intensive care management. Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, the Commissioner of Social Services may reimbu…

Sec. 17b-241b. Rate for private psychiatric residential treatment facilities. Section 17b-241b is repealed, effective June 6, 2018. (P.A. 14-217, S. 136; P.A. 18-99, S. 2.)

Sec. 17b-242. (Formerly Sec. 17-313). Payments to home health care agencies and home health aide agencies. Appeals. Hearings. Authorized practitioners. Regulations. (a) The Department of Social Services shall determine the rates to be paid to home health care agencies and home he…

Sec. 17b-242a. Prior authorization for Medicaid home health services, physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy. Regulations. The Commissioner of Social Services shall establish prior authorization procedures under the Medicaid program for home health services, ph…

Sec. 17b-242b. Pilot program for ventilator-dependent Medicaid recipients receiving medical care at home. Section 17b-242b is repealed, effective June 6, 2018. (P.A. 12-91, S. 1; P.A. 18-99, S. 2.)

Sec. 17b-243. (Formerly Sec. 17-313a). Payments to rehabilitation centers. (a) The rate to be paid by the state to rehabilitation centers, including but not limited to, centers affiliated with the Easter Seal Society of Connecticut, Inc., for services to patients referred by any …

Sec. 17b-244. (Formerly Sec. 17-313b). Payments to private facilities providing functional or vocational services for severely handicapped persons and payments for residential care. Establishment of rate. Regulations. (a) The room and board component of the rates to be paid by th…

Sec. 17b-244a. Rates for payment to residential facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. In determining the service component of the rates to be paid by the state under sections 17b-244 and 17b-246 to private facilities and facilities operated by regional educat…

Sec. 17b-245. (Formerly Sec. 17-313c). Payments to day care and vocational training programs sponsored by certain associations. (a) The rates to be paid by the state to the day care and vocational training programs sponsored by the associations affiliated with United Cerebral Pal…

Sec. 17b-245a. Payments to federally qualified health centers. Section 17b-245a is repealed, effective June 15, 2012. (P.A. 95-160, S. 67, 69; P.A. 96-139, S. 12, 13; P.A. 12-119, S. 9.)

Sec. 17b-245b. Federally qualified health centers. Reimbursement methodology in the Medicaid program. (a) The Commissioner of Social Services shall, consistent with federal law, reimburse federally qualified health centers on an all-inclusive encounter rate per client encounter b…

Sec. 17b-245c. Demonstration project to provide telemedicine to Medicaid recipients at federally qualified community health centers. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Telemedicine” means the use of interactive audio, interactive video or interactive data communication in the deli…

Sec. 17b-245d. Information to be provided by federally qualified health centers. Adjustment of encounter rates. (a) On or before February 1, 2013, and on January first annually thereafter, each federally qualified health center shall file with the Department of Social Services th…

Sec. 17b-245e. Telehealth services provided under the Medicaid program. Report. (a) For purposes of this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Social Services; (2) “department” means the Department of Social Services; and (3) “telehealth” has the same meaning as p…

Sec. 17b-245f. Diabetes. Program to recommend federally-qualified health centers and other covered entities. Working group. Medicaid waiver. Report to General Assembly. Regulations. (a) For the purposes of this section: (1) “Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Social Services…

Sec. 17b-245g. Telehealth services under the Connecticut medical assistance program. Audio-only telehealth services. Coverage criteria. Reimbursement. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Telehealth” means the mode of delivering health care or other health services via information a…

Sec. 17b-246. (Formerly Sec. 17-313d). Rates to include reimbursement for reasonable costs mandated by collective bargaining agreements. For purposes of establishing rates to be paid by the state (1) to private facilities which provide functional, vocational services or residenti…

Sec. 17b-247. (Formerly Sec. 17-314l). Contracts for stock and standard durable medical equipment. Payment of laboratory services. The Commissioner of Social Services shall, where feasible and cost effective, enter into contracts with suppliers of stock and standard durable medic…

Sec. 17b-248. (Formerly Sec. 17-316). Liability of home or institution having life care contract. No home or institution having a life care contract with any person therein shall be liable for the support of such person in a state humane institution if such home or institution is…

Sec. 17b-249. (Formerly Sec. 17-317). Support of mentally ill persons accused of crime. Section 17b-249 is repealed, effective June 15, 2012. (1949 Rev., S. 2664; 1953, S. 1501d; March, 1958, P.A. 27, S. 6; P.A. 85-506, S. 27, 32; P.A. 12-158, S. 2.)

Sec. 17b-250. (Formerly Sec. 17-318). Payment of hospital expense of inmate transferred from correctional institution. When any person has been transferred from the Connecticut Correctional Institution, Somers, the York Correctional Institution, or its maximum security division, …