Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES
Division 40 - Division of Maternal, Child and Family Health
Chapter 7 - Metabolic Formula Program
Section 19 CSR 40-7.050 - Program Eligibility
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: The Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) provides low-protein formula, a special dietary product, to individuals diagnosed as having phenylketonuria (PKU), maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) and other metabolic conditions as approved by the Newborn Screening Standing Committee, a subcommittee of the Missouri Genetic Advisory Committee which makes recommendations to the department on newborn screening issues. This rule establishes the criteria by which the Metabolic Formula Program accepts clients for service.
(1) Conditions of eligibility for the Metabolic Formula Program (MFP) include:
(2) A sliding fee scale shall be used to determine the amount of monthly premium and assistance to be provided by the department for those individuals six (6) through eighteen (18) years having no insurance, Medicaid or Medicare and whose adjusted gross income places the family at three hundred percent (300%) of the federal poverty level or above. The sliding fee scale shall be updated based on changes in the federal poverty guidelines. The adjusted gross income line from Internal Revenue Service recognized tax forms shall be the income used to determine financial eligibility with adjustments for child support received or paid. The table for establishing a sliding scale fee of premiums is provided below.
Table: Sliding Fee Scale for those Applicants Age 6 through 18 Years Based on Family Adjusted Gross Income
Adjusted Gross Income is: | Approximate Family Monthly Premium for Formula* |
299% of poverty or below | 0 |
300% - 399% of poverty | 25% |
400 - 499% of poverty | 40% |
500% of poverty and above | 50% |
*Based upon DHSS cost of formula and subject to available funding for the program.
(3) Approved applicants having no insurance coverage for metabolic formula, Medicaid benefits or other third party payor will have formula provided as prescribed by the person's genetic disease physician or a general physician in consultation with the genetic disease physician at the metabolic treatment center.
*Original authority: 191.315, RSMo 1985, amended 1993, 1995; 191.331, RSMo 1965, amended 1985, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997, 2007; and 191.332, RSMo 2001, amended 2005.