The department of health shall provide ongoing case management services and staff training in case management services in collaboration with the department of human services’ medicaid early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment program, including but not limited to:

(1) Assessment of children who are medically fragile to determine service needs;

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-432

  • Case management services: means services that assist medically fragile children under the medicaid state plan in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
  • Medically fragile children: means children under the age of twenty-one with complex medical conditions that may or may not require technological interventions, including but not limited to ventilator care, tracheostomy care, catheterizations, parenteral nutrition, complex enteral feeding, and complex wound care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
(2) Development of a specific care plan;
(3) Referral for and linkages to services to implement the specific care plan; and
(4) Monitoring and follow-up.

Medicaid reimbursements received by the department for case management services provided to families of medically fragile children shall be deposited into the general fund.