§ 1903. Contract authorized

(a) The Commissioner of Vermont Health Access may contract with a private organization to operate, under his or her control and supervision, parts of the medical assistance program.

(b) The contract shall provide that either party may cancel it upon reasonable notice to the other party.

(c) In furtherance of the purposes of the contract, the Commissioner of Vermont Health Access may requisition funds for the purposes of this subchapter, with the approval of the Governor, and the Commissioner of Finance and Management shall issue a warrant in favor of the contracting party to permit the contracting party to make payments to vendors under the contract. The Commissioner of Vermont Health Access shall quarterly, and at other times as the Commissioner of Finance and Management requires, render an account in a form as the Commissioner of Finance and Management prescribes of the expenditures of monies so advanced. (Added 1967, No. 147, § 6; amended 1983, No. 195 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2005, No. 174 (Adj. Sess.), § 96; 2009, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), § I.47.)