The Commissioners of Social Services and Public Health shall enter into a memorandum of understanding for the purpose of improving public health service delivery and public health outcomes for low income populations through the sharing of available HUSKY Health program and Title V data, provided the sharing of such data: (1) Is directly related to the administration of the Medicaid state plan or any other applicable state plan administered by the Department of Social Services or the Department of Public Health; (2) is in accordance with federal and state law and regulations concerning the privacy, security, confidentiality and safeguarding of individually identifiable information contained in such data; (3) includes a detailed description of the intended public health service delivery and public health outcome goals that are achieved by the sharing of such data; and (4) the costs of compiling and transmitting any such data can be accomplished within the available resources of the Departments of Social Services and Public Health.
(P.A. 02-65, S. 1; P.A. 15-69, S. 36.)
History: P.A. 15-69 changed “Medicaid, HUSKY Plus, HUSKY Plan Part B,” to “HUSKY Health program”, effective June 19, 2015.