(a) No service recipient may receive care at the expense of the state in a program operated by the department except:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 33-2-1109

  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Department: means the department of mental health and substance abuse services. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Service recipient: means a person who is receiving service, has applied for service, or for whom someone has applied for or proposed service because the person has mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. See Tennessee Code 33-1-101
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) One who is indigent;
(2) A person subject to evaluation, diagnosis or treatment under chapter 5, part 5 of this title, or chapter 7, part 3 of this title and charged with a felony, or chapter 7, part 4 of this title;
(3) A person whose service is paid for, in part, by state or federal government and the payment is conditioned on the department’s acceptance of it as full satisfaction of the person’s liability; or
(4) A person whose service is paid for by the service recipient or another person or a third party and the department determines, under standards approved by the commissioner of finance and administration and the comptroller of the treasury, that the state’s interests are best served by accepting payment offered as full satisfaction of the service recipient’s liability.
(b) Subdivision (a)(4) does not apply to any claim for payment for which the state has a suit pending to recover payment.
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