465 IAC 2-18-15 - Establishment and adjustment of the maintenance payment and enhanced supervision payment
Authority: IC 31-25-2-18
Affected: IC 31-25-2-7; IC 31-27-4
Sec. 15.
(a) The
department shall commission an independent contractor to conduct a study, using
primary and secondary data, to assist the department with the determination of
the reasonable costs of caring for a foster child in Indiana in accordance with
requirements and guidelines as set forth in Title IV-E.
(b) The study will consider the age of a
child and the relevant costs associated with the care of children, including
children in foster care.
(c) From
this study, the independent contractor will construct a model of maintenance
payments. The study will provide information to the department so that the
department can establish appropriate maintenance payment rates and enhanced
supervision payment rates. The completed study will provide the methodology for
calculating future adjustments to maintenance payments, if any, as underlying
costs change.
(d) The department
will determine the maintenance payment rate that will be paid to all foster
parents.
(e) The department will
determine the enhanced supervision payment rates, which shall correspond to the
categories of supervision established by the approved assessment tool as
defined in section 3(a) of this rule.
(f) The maintenance payment rates and
enhanced supervision rates will be reviewed annually and adjusted in accordance
with subsection (c).
(g) The
department will publish the current maintenance payment and enhanced
supervision rates in the foster family home provider manual maintained by the
department on the department's website.
(h) The department may, at its discretion,
develop and implement pilot programs by written agreement with a foster home or
group of foster homes, that may include payment amounts or procedures during a
specified time period that differ from the amounts or procedures determined
under this section.
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