(e) [ Editor's note: This version of subsection (2)(e) is effective July 1, 2024. ] Service agencies shall use one hundred percent of the funding resulting from the increase in the reimbursement rate pursuant to subsection (2)(c) of this section to increase compensation for direct support professionals above the rate of compensation that direct support professionals are receiving as of June 30, 2018. This requirement applies to funds billed by case management agencies and entities in their role as organized health-care delivery systems, as defined in 42 CFR 447.10 (b). Service agencies shall not use funding resulting from the reimbursement rate increase for general and administrative expenses, such as chief executive officer salaries, human resources, information technology, oversight, business management, general record keeping, budgeting and finance, and other activities not identifiable to a single program.
Source: L. 2006: Entire article added with relocations, p. 1945, § 7, effective July 1. L. 2013: Entire section amended, (SB 13-167), ch. 394, p. 2294, § 6, effective June 5. L. 2018: Entire section amended, (HB 18-1407), ch. 248, p. 1527, § 2, effective May 24. L. 2020: (2)(f) and (2)(h) amended, (HB 20-1363), ch. 204, p. 1007, § 1, effective June 30. L. 2021: (2)(e) amended, (HB 21-1187), ch. 83, p. 334, § 32, effective July 1, 2024.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 26-4-626 as it existed prior to 2006.
Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 18-1407, see section 1 of chapter 248, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.
Structure Colorado Code
Title 25.5 - Health Care Policy and Financing
Article 6 - Colorado Medical Assistance Act - Long-Term Care
§ 25.5-6-402. Legislative Declaration - Prader-Willi Syndrome
§ 25.5-6-405. Relationship to Other Programs
§ 25.5-6-408. Eligibility - Fees
§ 25.5-6-409. Services for Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
§ 25.5-6-410. Qualification for Federal Funding