30:4D-17.39 Medicaid home visitation demonstration project.
1. a. The Department of Human Services, subject to federal approval and the availability of federal financial participation under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, shall establish a three-year Medicaid home visitation demonstration project. The demonstration project shall be designed to provide ongoing health and parenting information, parent and family support, and links to essential health and social services during pregnancy, infancy, and early childhood. The demonstration project shall be developed in consultation with the Department of Children and Families and the Department of Health.
b. The project shall be modeled on home visitation programs currently administered by the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, and the Division of Family Development in the Department of Human Services.
c. The project shall be implemented in stages, prioritizing expansion of services in counties with the highest number of births to eligible families and where current home visitation programs provide services to less than 10 percent of the eligible population.
L.2017, c.50, s.1.