Effective - 28 Aug 2007
191.411. System of coordinated health care services — health access incentive fund created, purpose — enhanced Medicaid payments — rules — annual report. — 1. The director of the department of health and senior services shall develop and implement a plan to define a system of coordinated health care services available and accessible to all persons, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The plan shall encourage the location of appropriate practitioners of health care services, including dentists, or psychiatrists or psychologists as defined in section 632.005, in rural and urban areas of the state, particularly those areas designated by the director of the department of health and senior services as health resource shortage areas, in return for the consideration enumerated in subsection 2 of this section. The department of health and senior services shall have authority to contract with public and private health care providers for delivery of such services.
2. There is hereby created in the state treasury the "Health Access Incentive Fund". Moneys in the fund shall be used to implement and encourage a program to fund loans, loan repayments, start-up grants, provide locum tenens, professional liability insurance assistance, practice subsidy, annuities when appropriate, or technical assistance in exchange for location of appropriate health providers, including dentists, who agree to serve all persons in need of health services regardless of ability to pay. The department of health and senior services shall encourage the recruitment of minorities in implementing this program.
3. In accordance with an agreement approved by both the director of the department of social services and the director of the department of health and senior services, the commissioner of the office of administration shall issue warrants to the state treasurer to transfer available funds from the health access incentive fund to the department of social services to be used to enhance MO HealthNet payments to physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, psychologists, or other mental health providers licensed under chapter 337 in order to enhance the availability of physician, dental, or mental health services in shortage areas. The amount that may be transferred shall be the amount agreed upon by the directors of the departments of social services and health and senior services and shall not exceed the maximum amount specifically authorized for any such transfer by appropriation of the general assembly.
4. The general assembly shall appropriate money to the health access incentive fund from the health initiatives fund created by section 191.831. The health access incentive fund shall also contain money as otherwise provided by law, gift, bequest or devise. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, the unexpended balance in the fund at the end of the biennium shall not be transferred to the general revenue fund of the state.
5. The director of the department of health and senior services shall have authority to promulgate reasonable rules to implement the provisions of this section pursuant to chapter 536.
6. The department of health and senior services shall submit an annual report to the oversight committee created under section 208.955 regarding the implementation of the plan developed under this section.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 564, A.L. 2001 S.B. 393, A.L. 2007 S.B. 577)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XII - Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 191 - Health and Welfare
Section 191.005 - Information exchange between departments, rulemaking authority.
Section 191.025 - Health care compact.
Section 191.127 - Land may be leased for farming or grazing — procedure.
Section 191.150 - Purchase of food limited to use of institution inmates.
Section 191.160 - Board and living quarters for employees of institutions.
Section 191.170 - Mistreatment of inmates — penalty.
Section 191.180 - Furnishing unfit food to institution — penalty.
Section 191.190 - Accessory to mistreatment of inmates or furnishing of unwholesome food — penalty.
Section 191.210 - Attendance of patient by private physician.
Section 191.211 - Funding of certain programs.
Section 191.213 - Additional funding sources for certain programs.
Section 191.228 - Physician and pharmacist not subject to discipline for cooperation.
Section 191.300 - Definitions.
Section 191.315 - Genetics program to be established by department — rules authorized — procedure.
Section 191.335 - Hemophilia program established — state assistance, when.
Section 191.362 - Appropriately trained employees to have completed course in dialysis techniques.
Section 191.365 - Sickle cell anemia — purposes of program — financial assistance, when.
Section 191.375 - Cystic fibrosis, program for care and treatment — financial assistance, when.
Section 191.380 - Cystic fibrosis, duties of department.
Section 191.500 - Definitions.
Section 191.510 - Contracts for loans to include terms.
Section 191.515 - Requirements for application.
Section 191.520 - Maximum amount of loans — source of funds.
Section 191.525 - Number of loans available — to whom — length of loans.
Section 191.530 - Interest on loans — repayment terms — temporary deferral.
Section 191.535 - Termination of course of study, effect.
Section 191.540 - Repayment schedules — breach of contract.
Section 191.545 - Recovery — actions for.
Section 191.550 - Approval of contracts.
Section 191.603 - Definitions.
Section 191.605 - Department to designate as areas of need — factors to be considered.
Section 191.607 - Qualifications for eligibility established by department.
Section 191.609 - Contract for repayment of loans, contents.
Section 191.615 - Application for federal funds — insufficient funds, effect.
Section 191.630 - Definitions.
Section 191.650 - Definitions.
Section 191.653 - HIV testing performed by whom, how — consultation with subject required, when.
Section 191.665 - Discrimination prohibited, exceptions.
Section 191.680 - Maintaining a nuisance, abatement to be ordered, when.
Section 191.683 - Reports to general assembly by department of health and senior services.
Section 191.692 - Premarital HIV testing, rulemaking authorized, when.
Section 191.695 - Rulemaking authority, department of health and senior services — procedure.
Section 191.710 - MO HealthNet program and SCHIPS to focus on premature infant health care.
Section 191.711 - Education publications to be prepared, contents — distribution.
Section 191.748 - Shaken baby syndrome video, required viewing, when.
Section 191.755 - Department to post resources on website, content.
Section 191.756 - Grants awarded by board of health and senior services — eligibility criteria.
Section 191.758 - Information to be made available by physician to pregnant women, when.
Section 191.765 - Definitions.
Section 191.769 - Areas not considered public places.
Section 191.771 - Person in control of public places or public meetings, duties.
Section 191.773 - Violators, guilty of infraction.
Section 191.800 - Definitions.
Section 191.803 - Boards of education to establish breakfast program — rules — waiver, procedure.
Section 191.805 - Hardship grant program, distribution of, rules.
Section 191.815 - Administrative rules, procedure.
Section 191.828 - Evaluations, effect of initiatives.
Section 191.839 - Education programs for persons with no or inadequate health insurance.
Section 191.843 - Authorizes grants for regional research consortia in a distressed community.
Section 191.900 - Definitions.
Section 191.907 - Original source of information to receive a portion of any recovery.
Section 191.908 - Whistleblower protections — violations, penalty.
Section 191.914 - False report or claim, penalty.
Section 191.915 - Breast-feeding information provided, when, by whom.
Section 191.931 - Early intervention services available — report, content.
Section 191.937 - Rulemaking authority, procedure.
Section 191.990 - Diabetes goals and benchmarks — report, contents.
Section 191.1050 - Definitions.
Section 191.1056 - Fund created, use of moneys.
Section 191.1075 - Definitions.
Section 191.1080 - Council created, purpose, members, terms, duties — report — expiration date.
Section 191.1085 - Program established, purpose — website information — rulemaking authority.
Section 191.1100 - Citation of law — definitions.
Section 191.1102 - Additional licensure not required, when — inapplicability.
Section 191.1104 - Display of license or certificate, how satisfied.
Section 191.1140 - Treatment of chronic, common, and complex diseases, program authorized, purpose.
Section 191.1145 - Definitions — telehealth services authorized, when.
Section 191.1146 - Physician-patient relationship required, how established.
Section 191.1150 - Citation of law — definitions — designation of caregiver, when — requirements.
Section 191.1164 - Citation of law — definitions.
Section 191.1167 - Contracts, policies, or procedures in violation of act deemed null and void.
Section 191.1168 - Severability clause.
Section 191.1601 - Citation of law.
Section 191.1603 - Definitions.
Section 191.1604 - Long-term dignity savings account, use, requirements.
Section 191.1606 - Reporting, forms — rulemaking authority.
Section 191.1607 - Financial institutions, requirements — no responsibility or liability, when.