C.R.S. Section 27-66-104
Types of services purchased

  • limitation on payments
[Editor’s note:
This version of this section is effective until July 1, 2024.]

(1)

Community mental health services may be purchased from behavioral health entities, clinics, community mental health centers, local general or psychiatric hospitals, and other agencies that have been approved by the commissioner.

(2)

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(a)

Each year the general assembly shall appropriate money for the purchase of mental health services from:

(I)

Community mental health centers;

(II)

Agencies that provide specialized clinic-type services but do not serve a specific designated service area;

(III)

Acute treatment units; and

(IV)

Behavioral health entities.

(b)

The money appropriated for the purposes of this subsection (2) shall be distributed by the commissioner to approved behavioral health entities, community mental health centers, and other agencies on the basis of need and in accordance with the services provided.

(3)

Each year the general assembly may appropriate money in addition to the money appropriated for purposes of subsection (2) of this section, which money may be used by the commissioner to assist behavioral health entities and community mental health clinics and centers in instituting innovative programs, in providing mental health services to impoverished areas, and in dealing with crisis situations. The commissioner shall require that any innovative or crisis programs for which money is allocated pursuant to this subsection (3) be clearly defined in terms of services to be rendered, program objectives, scope and duration of the program, and the maximum amount of money to be provided.

(4)

Repealed.

(5)

If there is a reduction in the financial support of local governmental bodies for community mental health services, the commissioner is authorized to reduce state payments for services in an amount proportional to the reduction in such local financial support.

(6)

For purposes of entering into a cooperative purchasing agreement pursuant to section 24-110-201, a nonprofit behavioral health entity, nonprofit community mental health center, or nonprofit community mental health clinic may be certified as a local public procurement unit as provided in section 24-110-207.5.

Source: Section 27-66-104 — Types of services purchased - limitation on payments, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-27.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

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Current through Fall 2024

§ 27-66-104’s source at colorado​.gov