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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1975

89 STAT. 318

Ante, p. 309.

42 USC 1396.

Reimbursements.

42 USC 1395.

Fee schedule.

Ante, p. 312.

PUBLIC LAW 94-63—JULY 29, 1975 " (H) such community mental health center will develop a plan for adequate financial support to be available, and will use its best efforts to insure that adequate financial support will be available, to it from Federal sources (other than this part) and nonFederal sources (including, to the maximum extent feasible, reimbursement from the recipients of consultation and education services and screening services provided in accordance with sections 201(b)(1)(D) and 201 (b)(1)(E)) so that the center will be able to continue to provide comprehensive mental health services when financial assistance provided under this part is reduced or terminated, as the case may be; " (I) such community mental health center (i) has or will have a contractual or other arrangement with the agency of the State, in which it provides services, which administers or supervises the administration of a State plan approved under title X IX of the Social Security Act for the payment of all or a part of the center's costs in providing health services to persons who are eligible for medical assistance under such a State plan, or (ii) has made or will make every reasonable effort to enter into such an arrangement; " (J) such community mental health center has made or will make and will continue to make every reasonable effort to collect appropriate reimbursement for its costs in providing health services to persons who are entitled to insurance benefits under title X VIII of the Social Security Act, to medical assistance under a State plan approved under title X IX of such Act, or to assistance for medical expenses under any other public assistance program or private health insurance program; " (K) such community mental health center (i) has prepared a schedule of fees or payments for the provision of its services designed to cover its reasonable costs of operation and a corresponding schedule of discounts to be applied to the payment of such fees or payments which discounts are adjusted on the basis of the patient's ability to pay; (ii) has made and will continue to make every reasonable effort (I) to secure from patients payment for services in accordance with such approved schedules, and (II) to collect reimbursement for health services to persons described in subparagraph (J) on the basis of the full amount of fees and payments for such services without application of any discount, and (iii) has submitted to the Secretary such reports as he may require to determine compliance with this subparagraph; and "(L) such community mental health center will adopt and enforce a policy (i) under which fees for the4)rovision of mental health services through the center will be paid to the center, and (ii) which prohibits health professionals who provide such services to patients through the center from providing such services to such patients except through the center. An application for a grant under section 203 shall also contain a long-range plan for the expansion of the program of the community mental health center for which the application is submitted for the purpose of meeting anticipated increases in demand by residents of the center's catchment area for the comprehensive mental health services described in section 201(b)(1). Such a plan shall include a description of planned growth in the programs of the center, estimates of increased costs arising from such growth, estimates of the portion of such increased costs to be paid from Federal funds, and anticipated