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90th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

HF 2200: Relating to the diagnosis of an intellectual disability required for the Medicaid home and community-based services intellectual disability waiver

Died when the session ended · The 2024 session adjourned on April 19, 2024, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill relates to the diagnosis of an intellectual disability for the purposes of eligibility for the Medicaid home and community-based services (HCBS) intellectual disability waiver. The bill requires the department of health and human services (HHS) to amend Medicaid member eligibility criteria for the HCBS intellectual disability waiver to authorize, in addition to psychologists and psychiatrists, pediatricians, behavioral health providers, advanced practice registered nurses, advanced registered nurse practitioners, and other advanced practice providers to diagnose a person as having an intellectual disability.

Sponsors

Not listed

Cost

No fiscal note

Lobbying · 7 for, 1 against

For: Exceptional Persons, Inc.; Imagine the Possibilities; Iowa Developmental Disabilities Council; Mosaic; Nishna Productions Inc.; One Vision; Village Northwest Unlimited

Against: Iowa Psychological Association

In plain words

  1. January 29, 2024Filed in the House and sent to the Health and Human Services committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/90/HF2200