245.4887 MS 1990 [Renumbered
245.4888]
245.4887 APPEALS.
A child or a child's family, as appropriate, who requests mental health services under sections
245.487 to
245.4887 must be advised of services available and the right to appeal as described in
this section at the time of the request and each time the individual family community support plan
or individual treatment plan is reviewed. A child whose request for mental health services under
sections
245.487 to
245.4887 is denied, not acted upon with reasonable promptness, or whose
services are suspended, reduced, or terminated by action or inaction for which the county board
is responsible under sections
245.487 to
245.4887 may contest that action or inaction before
the state agency according to section
256.045. The commissioner shall monitor the nature and
frequency of administrative appeals under this section.
History: 1989 c 282 art 4 s 52; 1991 c 292 art 6 s 58 subd 1; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 11 s 11