(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. 27-92-103. Extent of liability. (1) The department of human services shall assess against the patient, spouse, or parents made liable by section 27-92-101, or any of them, all or such part of the cost as they are respectively able to pay, but the department of human services shall not assess against the liable persons in the aggregate more than the whole of such cost.
(2) The liability of each parent shall cease when such parent has completed the payments as assessed in this article or upon the patient's eighteenth birthday, whichever event first occurs.
Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 771, § 2, effective April 29. L. 2011: (2) amended, (HB 11-1303), ch. 264, p. 1172, § 83, effective August 10.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-12-103 as it existed prior to 2010.