Missouri Laws 630.210 – Charges for pay patients — each facility considered a separate unit — ..
1. The director shall determine the maximum amount for services which shall be charged in each of the residential facilities, day programs or specialized services operated or funded by the department for full-time or part-time inpatient, resident or outpatient evaluation, care, treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation or other service rendered to persons affected by mental disorder, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disability, or drug or alcohol abuse. The maximum charge shall be related to the per capita inpatient cost or actual outpatient evaluation or other service costs of each facility, program or service, which may vary from one locality to another. The director shall promulgate rules setting forth a reasonable standard means test which shall be applied by all facilities, programs and services operated or funded by the department in determining the amount to be charged to persons receiving services. The department shall pay, out of funds appropriated to it for such purpose, all or part of the costs for the evaluation, care, treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation or room and board provided or arranged by the department for any patient, resident or client who is domiciled in Missouri and who is unable to pay fully for services.
2. The director shall apply the standard means test annually and may make application of the test upon his own initiative or upon request of an interested party whenever evidence is offered tending to show that the current support status of any patient, resident or client is no longer proper. Any change of support status shall be retroactive to the date of application or request for review. If the persons responsible to pay under section 630.205 or 552.080 refuse to cooperate in providing information necessary to properly apply the test or if retroactive benefits are paid on behalf of the patient, resident or client, the charges may be retroactive to a date prior to the date of application or request for review. The decision of the director in determining the amount to be charged for services to a patient, resident or client shall be final. Appeals from the determination may be taken to the circuit court of Cole County or the county where the person responsible for payment resides in the manner provided by chapter 536.
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 630.210
- Alcohol abuse: the use of any alcoholic beverage, which use results in intoxication or in a psychological or physiological dependency from continued use, which dependency induces a mental, emotional or physical impairment and which causes socially dysfunctional behavior. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Client: any person who is placed by the department in a facility or program licensed and funded by the department or who is a recipient of services from a regional center, as defined in section 633. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Day program: a place conducted or maintained by any person who advertises or holds himself out as providing prevention, evaluation, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse for less than the full twenty-four hours comprising each daily period. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Department: the department of mental health of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Developmental disability: a disability:
(a) Which is attributable to:
a. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Director: the director of the department of mental health, or his designee. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Habilitation: a process of treatment, training, care or specialized attention that seeks to enhance and maximize a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability to cope with the environment and to live as determined by the person as much as possible, as is appropriate for the person considering his or her physical and mental condition and financial means. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Intellectual disability: significantly subaverage general intellectual functioning which:
(a) Originates before age eighteen. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Mental disorder: any organic, mental or emotional impairment which has substantial adverse effects on a person's cognitive, volitional or emotional function and which constitutes a substantial impairment in a person's ability to participate in activities of normal living. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Mental illness: a state of impaired mental processes, which impairment results in a distortion of a person's capacity to recognize reality due to hallucinations, delusions, faulty perceptions or alterations of mood, and interferes with an individual's ability to reason, understand or exercise conscious control over his actions. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Patient: an individual under observation, care, treatment or rehabilitation by any hospital or other mental health facility or mental health program pursuant to the provisions of chapter 632. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Rehabilitation: a process of restoration of a person's ability to attain or maintain normal or optimum health or constructive activity through care, treatment, training, counseling or specialized attention. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Resident: a person receiving residential services from a facility, other than mental health facility, operated, funded or licensed by the department. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Residential facility: any premises where residential prevention, evaluation, care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation is provided for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disability, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- Specialized service: an entity which provides prevention, evaluation, transportation, care, treatment, habilitation or rehabilitation services to persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse. See Missouri Laws 630.005
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
3. The department shall not pay for services provided to a patient, resident or client who is not domiciled in Missouri unless the state is fully reimbursed for the services; except that the department may pay for services provided to a transient person for up to thirty days pending verification of his domiciliary state, and for services provided for up to thirty days in an emergency situation. The director shall promulgate rules for determination of the domiciliary state of any patient, resident or client receiving services from a facility, program or service operated or funded by the department.
4. Whenever a patient, resident or client is receiving services from a residential facility, day program or specialized service operated or funded by the department, and the state, county, municipality, parent, guardian or other person responsible for support of the patient, resident or client fails to pay any installment required to be paid for support, the department or the residential facility, day program or specialized service may discharge the patient, resident or client as provided by chapter 31. The patient, resident or client shall not be discharged under this subsection until the final disposition of any appeal filed under subsection 2 of this section.
5. The standard means test may be waived for a child in need of mental health services to avoid inappropriate custody transfers to the children’s division. The department of mental health shall notify the child’s parent or custodian that the standard means test may be waived. The department of mental health shall promulgate rules for waiving the standard means test. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2004, shall be invalid and void.