PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 3

All appropriations provided for the program -
MQ01.03 are to be used only for the
purposes herein appropriated, and there
shall be no budgetary transfer to any other
program or purpose, except that funds may
be transferred to the Mental Hygiene
Administration to pay providers for services
eligible for Medical Assistance
reimbursement and general funds may be
transferred to the Subcabinet Fund for the
purpose of assisting Local Management
Boards in returning or diverting children
from out-of-state placements. It is the
intent of the General Assembly that funds
travel with each child returned or diverted
from a Medicaid-funded out-of-state
placement in. Fiscal Year 1998. Funds
transferred should be equivalent to the
number of days of in-state care provided to
each child returned or diverted from a
Medicaid-funded out-of-state placement
by Local Management Boards during Fiscal
Year 1998 multiplied by the average per
diem general fund Medical Assistance cost
of maintaining the child in an out-of-state
placement. Funds should not be transferred
if the in-state placement still qualifies for
federal Medical Assistance funding, with
the exception of any general fund savings
generated by returning the child to an
in-state placement. To the extent that
Medicaid funds for children placed
out-of-state are included in the Mental
Hygiene Administration, those funds, rather
than Medical Care Programs

Administration funds, should be transferred
to the Subcabinet Fund when a child is
returned from out-of-state.

Further, it is the intent of the General
Assembly that the Medical Care Provider
Reimbursements budget be expended in
accordance with the budget detail presented

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Federal Fund Appropriation............................

1,020,125,496	2,075,931,764
1,007,625,496	2,050,931,763
1,014,625,496	2,064,931,763
1,005,625,496	2,046,931,763