The Division of Medicaid is authorized and directed to study the feasibility of implementing a pilot program to provide chronic disease management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using private sources of funding in an effort to reduce the financial and clinical burden of COPD illness upon the Medicaid program and the citizens of Mississippi. If a pilot program is deemed feasible, such a program shall be implemented and a report of findings and recommendations be prepared and provided to the Office of the Governor and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Public Health and Welfare Committees and the Chairman of the House Medicaid Committee in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the pilot program in reducing costs within the Medicaid program and in providing improved health and well-being of the affected patients.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 13 - Medical Assistance for the Aged; Medicaid
§ 43-13-109. Rules and regulations for procurement of employees
§ 43-13-111. Budgets of state health agencies
§ 43-13-115. Persons entitled to receive Medicaid
§ 43-13-117. Types of care and services for which financial assistance furnished
§ 43-13-118. Records of provider participating in Medicaid program
§ 43-13-121. Authority to administer article
§ 43-13-123. Methods of providing for payment of claims
§ 43-13-129. Misrepresentation by applicant for benefits or by provider of services; penalty
§ 43-13-133. Intent as to use of federal matching funds
§ 43-13-137. Division to comply with Administrative Procedure Law