§ 27-92-102 — Cost determination

(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.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2010: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 10-175), ch. 188, p. 771, � 2, effective April 29.