Arizona Laws 36-2029. Funding of facilities; contracts; limitations
A. The administration may use municipal, county, state and federal monies appropriated or otherwise available for the evaluation and treatment of alcoholics to assist in the establishment and maintenance of approved public or private treatment facilities. The monies may be expended for professional fees for services at an approved treatment facility or in contract for advancement or reimbursement of services provided at an approved treatment facility or any other appropriate manner and may be used for any purpose necessary to provide evaluation and treatment at approved treatment facilities. These monies may not be used for salaries or any other purpose within the administration but may be used for consultation services in the interest of approved treatment facilities.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-2029
- Administration: means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Evaluation: means a multidisciplinary professional analysis of a person's medical, psychological, social, financial and legal conditions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Incapacitated by alcohol: means that a person as a result of the use of alcohol is unconscious or has judgment otherwise so impaired that the person is incapable of realizing and making a rational decision with respect to the person's need for evaluation and treatment, is unable to take care of basic personal needs or safety such as food, clothing, shelter or medical care or lacks sufficient understanding or capacity to make or communicate rational decisions. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
- Treatment: means the broad range of emergency, outpatient, intermediate and inpatient services and care, including diagnostic evaluation, medical, psychiatric, psychological and social service care, vocational rehabilitation and career counseling, which may be extended to alcoholics and intoxicated persons. See Arizona Laws 36-2021
B. A public or private treatment facility providing or intending to provide evaluation and treatment and desiring to contract with the administration for the furnishing of such services shall submit a program, plan and budget to the administration on the forms and in the manner required by the administration. If such a facility is approved, the administration may contract with the facility for services as required and on such terms and conditions as the administration requires.
C. Each approved treatment facility shall provide the administration with a record of all federal, state, county, city and private monies received for the previous year and an estimate of monies to be received by the facility for the following year.
D. An approved private or public treatment facility providing evaluation and treatment may receive state funding on complying with the rules established by the department. Any such facility is not eligible for state funding until approved by the administration.
E. This article does not place on the administration or the state any liability for the well-being and care of alcoholics or persons incapacitated by alcohol in a public or private treatment facility or the responsibility for funding such programs beyond the limits of legislative appropriation therefor.