KRS 200.460: Services provided by Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs -

- Medical and hospital care -- Expenditures -- Appeal.

(1) The Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs shall provide through

contractual agreement, or otherwise , such services as may be necessary to locate,

diagnose, treat, habilitate, or rehabilitate children with disabilities, and may include

any necessary auxiliary services, such as room and board and travel for patients and

parents or parent substitutes.

(2) Children referred to the care of the Office for Children with Special Health Care

Needs for treatment shall be placed under the care of those physicians or surgeons

that the Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs deems qualified and

may be plac ed in a hospital or home properly equipped to render the necessary

treatment or services required by the child.

(3) The Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs is authorized to make those

expenditures necessary to carry out the provisions of thi s section and KRS 200.470

to 200.490.

(4) Any administrative appeal of a decision of the office shall be conducted in

accordance with KRS Chapter 13B.