Tama County v. Grundy County

CARTER, Justice.

Grundy County appeals from a judgment requiring it to reimburse Tama County for the medical care, services, and treatment of S.P., an individual involuntarily hospitalized in Tama County, but whose county of legal settlement was Grundy County. The hospitalization at issue in the present case was in a private hospital in Cedar Rapids. Grundy County contends that the county of a patient’s legal settlement is only required to reimburse another county which has paid for the patient’s hospitalization expenses if the care is provided in a state hospital. After reviewing the record…