Title X, Public Health

I. The department of health and human services shall cover maternal depression screenings at well-child visits under the state Medicaid program. The department shall recommend that health care providers screen mothers for maternal depression at all well-child visits. II. The depa…

There is hereby established a data privacy and information technology security governance board to oversee the department's use of data, data privacy, and information technology security that shall be maintained by the department of health and human services.

I. The data privacy and information technology security governance board shall consist of the following members: (a) The commissioner of the department of health and human services, who shall serve as the governance board chair. (b) The department's privacy officer. (c) Three dir…

I. The data privacy and information technology security governance board shall: (a) Meet at least 3 times a year and post public facing meeting minutes within 2 weeks of the completion of each meeting on the department's web page. (b) Become educated in what data governance means…

I. The department shall conduct a written risk assessment and mitigation remediation plan in the form of a privacy impact assessment (PIA). II. The assessment and plan shall: (a) Assess risks to an individual's right to privacy within the department's information technology syste…

I. With the availability of sufficient federal funding, the department of health and human services shall establish and administer statewide access points for delivery of substance use services and supports. The access points shall provide information and referrals for screening …

I. Personal medical and/or other scientific data of any kind whatsoever obtained for the purpose of medical or scientific research by the commissioner or by any person, organization, or agency authorized by the commissioner to obtain such data shall be confidential and shall be u…

I. The commissioner may use funds accruing to the department of health and human services for the payment of small claims of $100 or less occasioned by non-insured personal loss or accidents due to the activities of the department. Any person claiming loss or damage due to the ac…

The department shall pay health care providers, including dental providers, within 45 days of receipt of a clean claim for services rendered to medicaid recipients. For the purposes of this section "clean claim" means a claim for payment of covered health care expenses that is su…

I. There shall be an oversight committee on health and human services consisting of the following members: (a) Three members of the senate, at least one of whom shall be a member of the senate health and human services committee and one of whom shall be a member of the senate fin…

The oversight committee shall have a chairperson who shall be chosen by vote from among the committee membership. The chairperson's term of office shall be for the biennium. The committee shall have a clerk who shall be chosen by vote by the members of the committee. The clerk's …

I. The committee shall provide legislative oversight of and informational meetings on the programs, policies, and rules of the department as brought to its attention by committee members, legislators, department personnel, or others. The committee shall monitor the efficiency of …

I. In addition to the subcommittees established under RSA 126-A:15, II, the health and human services oversight committee shall create a permanent subcommittee on Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia. II. Members of the subcommittee shall be as follows: (a) One member o…

I. There is established the joint committee on emerging medical technologies. II. The members of the committee shall be as follows: (a) One member of the senate, appointed by the senate president. The senate president also shall appoint one alternate member. (b) Two members of th…

I. There is established an advisory council on child care in New Hampshire consisting of voting and nonvoting members listed in paragraphs II and III. II. The advisory council shall consist of the following voting members: (a) [Repealed.] (b) [Repealed.] (c) Two representatives o…

The commissioner shall: I. (a) Develop primary preventive health services for low-income and underserved populations. (b) Establish a network of primary care and family support services for children with chronic illness. (c) Recruit and establish retention of primary care practit…

I. The commissioner of health and human services shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A to establish a rate setting methodology which establishes unit medicaid reimbursement rates for home health services which reflect the average cost to deliver services. The commissioner shall consi…

The commissioner shall develop a statewide program of community living facilities for persons with developmental disabilities or mental illnesses. The commissioner shall be responsible for the selection, certification, and monitoring of such community living facilities in accorda…

In this chapter: I. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the department of health and human services. II. "Department" means the department of health and human services.

I. The commissioner shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A to govern the establishment and operation of community living facilities. The certification of community living facilities shall be based on these rules. Certification of such community living facilities shall be on a pe…

Notwithstanding RSA 153:5, 153:10-b, or any law to the contrary, the fire code applicable to single family dwellings, as defined in RSA 153:1, X, or, where applicable, single rental units in multi-unit dwellings, as defined in RSA 153:1, IX-a and VI, respectively, shall be the fi…

I. The commissioner shall establish rates, by rules adopted under RSA 541-A, sufficient to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health for persons in placement under this program. Payments hereunder may be made monthly by the commissioner from appropriated…

Community living facilities serving persons with developmental disabilities shall be considered a part of the service delivery system as defined in RSA 171-A.

The purpose of this subdivision is to assist in maintaining and making available additional emergency shelter facilities and other supportive and preventive services and to assist in meeting the operating costs of such shelters and services.

There is hereby established an emergency shelter program to assist in providing safe and sanitary shelters on a short-term emergency or transitional basis for persons who are destitute, mentally ill, abandoned, or developmentally disabled, and other poor persons.

Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching grant formula basis for the capital costs of renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for use as emergency she…

Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching formula basis to provide essential services including, but not limited to, maintenance, operation, utilities, and furnishings, and…

I. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "private nonprofit organization" means a secular or religious organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which is exempt from taxation under subtitle A of such code. Such organization shall also …

I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized to: (a) [Repealed.] (b) Transfer or reassign personnel within and between any division, office, unit, or other component of the department. Upon written notice to the commissioner of ad…

Persons receiving short-term emergency housing under this subdivision shall continue to maintain their legal residence as it existed at the time of entering the emergency shelter.

The commissioner may adopt such rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, as the commissioner deems reasonable and necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.

I. In this section: (a) "Shelter or housing": (1) Means emergency shelter or housing provided exclusively to specified aliens under order of the federal government, a state, or a unit of local government; and (2) Does not include short-term emergency shelter made necessary by a s…

There shall be an office of reimbursements within the department of health and human services.

I. Subject to the direction and supervision of the commissioner, the office of reimbursements shall: (a) Review and investigate all records of the New Hampshire hospital, the secure psychiatric unit, the Glencliff home, and the Hampstead hospital or other state-owned facilities t…

The office of reimbursements, with the approval of the commissioner, may, upon request, act on behalf of any state department, as defined in RSA 9:1, to recover any moneys due such department. The office of reimbursements shall not be liable for any expenses or costs incurred in …

Except as limited in RSA 126-A:43, II, expenses incurred in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34 or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the person, or the person's s…

Except as limited in RSA 126-A:39, expenses incurred by anyone in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34, or, at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution, or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the estate of the pe…

I. (a) Within 60 days after admittance, except as provided in paragraph II, and annually thereafter if requested by the commissioner, a financial statement shall be filed under penalty of perjury by a person legally chargeable for expenses pursuant to RSA 126-A:36 on forms provid…

I. Educational expenses of any resident or patient, who is capable of being benefited by instruction and who is between 3 and 21 years of age, as required under statute and incurred in the institutions named in or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private inst…

I. There shall be a department of health and human services under the executive direction of a commissioner of health and human services, which department shall be organized to provide a comprehensive and coordinated system of health and human services as needed to promote and pr…

The state shall enter into medicaid waivers from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, subject in each case to a review by the oversight committee on health and human services, established in RSA 126-A:13, which shall make a report to the legislative fiscal comm…

The department shall develop a Medicaid waiver to support the extension of Medicaid-allowable family planning services, as defined in the state's Medicaid plan, to Medicaid-eligible clients. The department shall present the proposed waiver design, including proposed coverage grou…

I. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall submit a Title XIX Medicaid state plan amendment to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the purpose of establishing a Medicaid hospice benefit. The hospice benefit shall incorporate, t…

I. The department shall seek funding for a Medicaid children's oral health initiative program as part of the department's budget for the biennium ending June 30, 2013, and each biennium thereafter. The program shall provide reimbursement to primary care providers who deliver prev…

Pursuant to Section 214 of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), no later than January 1, 2024, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall submit to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) the state p…

I. (a) Whenever the court issues an order for evaluation, care, or treatment of a child at a facility that provides child inpatient psychiatric treatment within the state mental health system pursuant to RSA 169-B, 169-C, or 169-D, the expenses of such evaluation, care, or treatm…