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.
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