1. The department may purchase services for patients, residents or clients from private and public vendors in this state with funds appropriated for this purpose.

2. Services that may be purchased may include prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation, transportation and other special services for persons affected by mental disorders, mental illness, intellectual disabilities, developmental disabilities or alcohol or drug abuse.

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 630.405

  • Department: the department of mental health of the state of Missouri. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Director: the director of the department of mental health, or his designee. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Drug abuse: the use of any drug without compelling medical reason, which use results in a temporary mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior, or in psychological or physiological dependency resulting from continued use, which dependency induces a mental, emotional or physical impairment and causes socially dysfunctional behavior. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Habilitation: a process of treatment, training, care or specialized attention that seeks to enhance and maximize a person with an intellectual disability or a developmental disability to cope with the environment and to live as determined by the person as much as possible, as is appropriate for the person considering his or her physical and mental condition and financial means. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Mental illness: a state of impaired mental processes, which impairment results in a distortion of a person's capacity to recognize reality due to hallucinations, delusions, faulty perceptions or alterations of mood, and interferes with an individual's ability to reason, understand or exercise conscious control over his actions. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • Rehabilitation: a process of restoration of a person's ability to attain or maintain normal or optimum health or constructive activity through care, treatment, training, counseling or specialized attention. See Missouri Laws 630.005
  • State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020

3. The commissioner of administration, in consultation with the director, shall promulgate rules establishing procedures consistent with the usual state purchasing procedures pursuant to chapter 34 for the purchase of services pursuant to this section. The commissioner may authorize the department to purchase any technical service which, in his judgment, can best be purchased direct pursuant to chapter 34. The commissioner shall cooperate with the department to purchase timely services appropriate to the needs of the patients, residents or clients of the department.

4. The commissioner of administration may promulgate rules authorizing the department to review, suspend, terminate, or otherwise take remedial measures with respect to contracts with vendors as defined in subsection 1 of this section that fail to comply with the requirements of section 210.906.

5. The commissioner of administration may promulgate rules for a waiver of chapter 34 bidding procedures for the purchase of services for patients, residents and clients with funds appropriated for that purpose if, in the commissioner’s judgment, such services can best be purchased directly by the department.

6. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this section shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the provisions of chapter 536.