Sec. 20.4. (a) If a Medicaid recipient is:

(1) adjudicated to be a delinquent child and placed in:

(A) a community based correctional facility for children;

(B) a juvenile detention facility; or

(C) a secure facility, not including a facility licensed as a childcaring institution under IC 31-27; or

(2) incarcerated in a prison or jail; and

ineligible to participate in the Medicaid program during the placement described in subdivision (1) or (2) because of federal Medicaid law, the division of family resources, upon notice that a child has been adjudicated to be a delinquent child and placed in a facility described in subdivision (1) or upon notice that a person is incarcerated in a prison or jail and placed in a facility described in subdivision (2), shall suspend the person's participation in the Medicaid program for up to two (2) years before terminating the person's eligibility.

(b) If the division of family resources receives:

(1) a dispositional decree under IC 31-37-19-28; or

(2) a modified disposition order under IC 31-37-22-9;

and the department of correction gives the division at least forty (40) days notice that a person will be released from a facility described in subsection (a)(1)(C) or (a)(2), the division of family resources shall take action necessary to ensure that a person described in subsection (a) is eligible to participate in the Medicaid program upon the person's release, if the person is eligible to participate.

As added by P.L.114-2009, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.1-2010, SEC.57; P.L.185-2015, SEC.9; P.L.152-2017, SEC.3.