Arizona Laws 41-2807. Medical services; rate structure
If a youth in a secure care facility requires health care services that the department, the facility or a provider contracted by the department cannot provide, the department shall pay approved claims from a facility or provider that provides these services as follows:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 41-2807
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of juvenile corrections. See Arizona Laws 41-2801
- Secure care: means confinement in a facility that is completely surrounded by a locked and physically secure barrier with restricted ingress and egress. See Arizona Laws 41-2801
- youth: means a person who has been committed according to law to the department of juvenile corrections for supervision, rehabilitation, treatment and education and who is either:
(a) At least fourteen years of age and under eighteen years of age. See Arizona Laws 41-2801
1. For inpatient and outpatient hospital services, the department shall reimburse at a level that does not exceed the reimbursement methodology established pursuant to Section 36-2903.01, subsection G, unless the department has a contract with the vendor.
2. For health and medical services, the department shall reimburse at a level that does not exceed the capped fee-for-service schedule that is adopted by the Arizona health care cost containment system administration pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 29, Article 1 and that is in effect at the time the services are delivered.