Colorado § 27-92-102 - Cost determination.
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§ 27-92-102. Cost determination.
(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.
Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 771, § 2, effective April 29.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-12-102 as it existed prior to 2010.
ANNOTATION
Law reviews. For article, "Protecting the Mentally Incompetent Child's Trust Interest from State Reimbursement Claims", see 58 Den. L.J. 557 (1981).
Charges not based on insurance. The charges, i.e., the actual cost of the care, are the same whether the patient has insurance or not. State v. Schleiger, 37 Colo. App. 195, 547 P.2d 1295 (1975), aff'd, 193 Colo. 531, 568 P.2d 441 (1977) (decided prior to 2010 amendments to this article).
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