I. The department of health and human services shall provide 10-year cost projections for the identified service or program:
- (a) Uncompensated care.
- (b) Medicaid care management.
- (c) Medicaid-funded home and community based waiver services: Choices for Independence, Developmental Services, Acquired Brain Disorder, and Children's In Home Services.
- (d) Nursing home services.
- II. The cost projections required in paragraph I for years one through 5 shall be based on the best available data and information available to the department to ensure accurate and reliable information is provided to the public and the general court.
- III. The cost projections required in paragraph I for years 6 through 10 shall be based on current policy, programs, and federal and state law, and shall assume economic and other external factors remain static.
- IV. The department shall issue the cost projections by September 30, 2019 and shall issue new projections every 2 years thereafter.
Source. 2018, 162:2, eff. July 1, 2018. 2022, 293:4, eff. Aug. 30, 2022.