Oregon Statutes - Chapter 444 - Special Medical Services for Children

• 444.010   Oregon Health and Science University to administer program for children with disabilities.
  (1) The Oregon Health and Science University is designated to administer a program the purpose of which is to enable the state to extend and...
• 444.020   Authority in administering services for children with special health needs; rules.
  The Oregon Health and Science University may: (1) Make all necessary rules and regulations for administering services to children with disabilities under ORS 444.010 to...
• 444.030   Oregon Health and Science University responsible for administration of services.
  The Oregon Health and Science University shall be responsible for the administration of services for children with special health needs under ORS 444.010 to 444.050...
• 444.040   Services for Children with Special Health Needs Account; expenditure of funds; payment of claims.
  (1) There is created in the General Fund of the State Treasury an account to be known as the Services for Children with Special Health...
• 444.050   Children not treated if parents object.
  In carrying out ORS 444.010 to 444.040, no state official, agent or representative shall take charge of any child over the objection of either of...
• 444.110   Complaint; examination; report of physician; investigation.
  (1) Any judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 may on the motion of the judge, or shall, on complaint filed by any probation...
• 444.120   Hearing; notice; evidence; order directing free treatment.
  (1) Upon filing a report under ORS 444.110, the judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 shall: (a) Fix a day for a hearing...
• 444.130   Treatment of children.
  (1) The president of the Oregon Health and Science University, or other person designated by the president shall: (a) Upon receiving the child, provide for...
• 444.140   Rejection of patients referred.
  If the physician or surgeon of the clinic to which the child has been assigned for treatment declines to treat the child, the physician or...
• 444.150   Physician not compensated for treatment.
  No compensation shall be charged by or allowed to the physician or surgeon who treats a patient committed under ORS 444.120.
• 444.160   Account and statement of treatment.
  The superintendent of the hospital or other person designated by the authorities of the Oregon Health and Science University shall: (1) Keep a correct account...
• 444.170   Approval of statement; payment of account.
  The judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 shall present the statement of the Oregon Health and Science University to the board of county...
• 444.180   Appointment of attendant to accompany child.
  The judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100 or 419C.005 may, in the discretion of the judge, appoint some person to accompany the child from the...
• 444.190   Compensation of attendant and examining physician.
  (1) Any person appointed as attendant under ORS 444.180 or to make an investigation and report of any questions involved in the complaint other than...
• 444.200   Reimbursing Oregon Health and Science University for expenses in returning patients.
  (1) The Oregon Health and Science University, in the discretion of the person designated by the authorities in control thereof, may pay: (a) Actual, reasonable,...
• 444.210   Treatment of child at other hospital.
  (1) Upon the written request of the person or institution having legal custody of a child, filed with the judge exercising jurisdiction under ORS 419B.100...
• 444.220   Compensation for treatment at other hospitals.
  When any child, pursuant to ORS 444.210, becomes a patient at any institution not affiliated with the Oregon Health and Science University, the person in...
• 444.230   Unspecified treatment and experimentation prohibited.
  (1) No child under the terms of ORS 444.110 to 444.240 shall be treated for any ailment except as is described by the order of...
• 444.240   Preparation and distribution of examination blanks; printing cost.
  (1) The Oregon Health and Science University shall prepare blanks containing such questions and requiring such information as may in its judgment be necessary and...
• 444.300   Department of Human Services database on childhood diabetes; rules.
  (1) Subject to available funding, including gifts, grants or donations, the Department of Human Services shall establish a uniform, statewide database for the collection of...
• 444.310   Annual survey of students.
  The Department of Human Services shall conduct an annual survey, to be completed by June 15, of all public schools, public charter schools and registered...
• 444.320   Physician report of childhood diabetes.
  (1) As used in this section, “child” means an individual 18 years of age or younger. (2) In accordance with ORS 444.300, upon diagnosing or...
• 444.330   Confidentiality of information.
  All identifying information regarding individual children that is reported to the Department of Human Services pursuant to ORS 444.300 to 444.330 shall be confidential and...

Last modified: August 7, 2008