KRS 605.115: Access to Medicaid funding for local school districts providing funding

matches for services for eligible children with disabilities.

The commissioner of the Department of Juvenile Justice and the secretary of the Cabinet

for Health and Family Services, with the cooperation of the Kentucky Board of Education

and the commissioner of education, shall implement policies to assure that local school

districts providing a funding match shall have direct access to Medicaid funding as

Medicaid providers for th e provision of health -related services to eligible children with

disabilities under the age of twenty-one (21) years of age. They shall develop policies and

procedures so the Department of Education can transfer the local school districts'

matching funds to the Department for Medicaid Services. They shall also review state and

federal statutes and regulations to determine the eligibility of local school districts to

receive Medicaid reimbursement for health -related services identified on a child's

individual education plan.