Medical assistance coverage, including Medicaid expansion, must include payment for sign and oral language interpreter services for assistance in providing covered health care services to a recipient of medical assistance who has limited English proficiency or who has hearing loss and uses interpreting services. The department shall adopt rules to implement this section.
50-24.1-45. Medical assistance benefits - Family adaptive behavior treatment and guidance - Dental screening and assessments - Dental case management - Teledentistry. Medical assistance coverage must include payment for the following services: 1. Family adaptive behavioral treatment and guidance to educate parents and caregivers to continue to carry out plans and recommendations of applied behavioral analysis. 2. Dental screening and assessment of patients to identify individuals in need of additional assessment, diagnostic, and treatment services. 3. Dental case management for maintenance of oral health for special populations, including elderly, special needs, medically fragile, and children. 4. Asynchronous teledentistry to reduce barriers to dental care through outreach programs and to integrate oral health into general health care settings to identify and refer treatment needs. 5. The services identified in subsections 2, 3, and 4 do not apply to Medicaid expansion.