Section 46.285. Operation of resource center and care management organization.

  In order to meet federal requirements and assure federal financial participation in funding of the family care benefit, a county, a tribe or band, a long-term care district or an organization, including a private, nonprofit corporation, may not directly operate both a resource center and a care management organization, except as follows:

(1)  For an entity with which the department has contracted under s. 46.281 (1) (e) 1. , 2005 stats., provision of the services specified under s. 46.283 (3) (b) , (e) , (f) and (g) shall be structurally separate from the provision of services of the care management organization by January 1, 2001.

(2)  The department may approve separation of the functions of a resource center from those of a care management organization by a means other than creating a long-term care district under s. 46.2895 to serve either as a resource center or as a care management organization.

1999 a. 9 ; 2005 a. 386 ; 2007 a. 20 .