§ 27-92-102. Cost determination

CO Rev Stat § 27-92-102 (2018) (N/A)
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(1) The department of human services shall periodically determine the individual cost for the care, support, maintenance, treatment, and education of the patients of each of the public institutions supervised by the department of human services. In making the determination, it is proper for the department to use averaging methods to the extent that it is not practicable, in the judgment of the executive director of the department of human services, to compute the actual cost for each patient.

(2) With respect to a resident patient who is under the age of twenty-one years, the department of human services shall deduct from the determined cost an amount equal to the average per capita cost for the education of children with disabilities pursuant to article 20 of title 22, C.R.S.