Sec 36-3414. Medically needy account monies

A. Subject to the availability of monies as prescribed in section 36-2921, the Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement pursuant to title 11, chapter 7, article 3, with the department to establish contracts to fund services to indigent, uninsured or underinsured children, adults and seriously mentally ill persons who do not meet the eligibility requirements of section 36-2901, paragraph 4, subdivision (a). In administering the contracts, the department:

1. Shall designate that tobacco tax and health care fund monies be used to supplement funds appropriated, or otherwise available, for behavioral health services to children, adults and the seriously mentally ill.

2. Shall give preference to those proposals that minimize expenditures for administration and overhead and maximize the amount of funds available for the delivery of direct care or services.

3. May fund either ongoing services or demonstration projects designed to implement specific services on a trial basis or implement innovative means for the delivery of services.

4. Shall require a contract established pursuant to this section to be signed by the department and the contractor prior to the transmission of any tobacco tax and health care fund monies to the contractor.

5. Shall adopt standards for the type and delivery of behavioral health services to be provided pursuant to this section.

B. Contracts established pursuant to this section shall require contractors to implement fee requirements pursuant to section 36-3409 and submit information at the director's request that the director determines to be necessary for the program evaluations required by section 36-2907.07.

(Rpld. 7/1/16)