Sec. 17b-83. (Formerly Sec. 17-82g). Form of aid. Direct payment for certain services. Payment of "clean claims".
Sec. 17b-83. (Formerly Sec. 17-82g). Form of aid. Direct payment for certain
services. Payment of "clean claims". The aid granted under the state supplement program or the temporary family assistance program shall be in the form of money payments
and shall be made by the commissioner within available Department of Social Services
appropriations, directly to the applicant or other person entitled to receive the same at
such regular intervals as the Commissioner of Social Services determines, provided the
payments of the costs of medical care and such other charges in connection with the
care and maintenance of a beneficiary as the commissioner deems necessary and reasonable may be made to the applicant or to those persons furnishing such services by the
commissioner. Ninety per cent of clean claims for payments to persons furnishing such
services shall be made no later than thirty days from receipt of the request for payment
and ninety-nine per cent shall be made within ninety days of such receipt. For the purposes of this section "clean claim" means a claim which can be processed without obtaining additional substantiation from the person furnishing such services or other person
entitled to receive payment. A claim submitted by any such person who is under investigation for fraud or abuse shall not be considered a clean claim.
(1969, P.A. 730, S. 10; P.A. 75-420, S. 4, 6; P.A. 77-614, S. 608, 610; P.A. 79-565, S. 1; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; June
18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2, S. 31, 165.)
History: P.A. 75-420 replaced welfare commissioner and department with commissioner and department of social
services; P.A. 77-614 replaced social services commissioner and department with commissioner and department of income
maintenance, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-565 added provisions re payment of "clean claims" and defined the term;
P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services for commissioner and department
of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; Sec. 17-82g transferred to Sec. 17b-83 in 1995; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-2 made technical changes, effective July 1, 1997.
Annotation to former section 17-82g:
Cited. 214 C. 256.