Sec. 17b-241. (Formerly Sec. 17-312b). Payments to mental health and substance abuse residential facilities and free-standing detoxification centers.
Sec. 17b-241. (Formerly Sec. 17-312b). Payments to mental health and substance abuse residential facilities and free-standing detoxification centers. (a) Any
rates established by the Commissioner of Social Services in effect February 1, 1991,
for mental health and substance abuse residential facilities shall remain in effect through
June 30, 1992, except those which would have been decreased effective July 1, 1991,
shall be decreased. Any rate increases made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1993,
shall not exceed the most recent annual increase in the consumer price index for urban
consumers.
(b) Any rates established by the Commissioner of Social Services in effect February
1, 1991, for free-standing detoxification centers shall remain in effect through June 30,
1992, except those which would have been decreased effective July 1, 1991, shall be
decreased. Any rate increases made during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1993, June
30, 1994, and June 30, 1995, shall not exceed the most recent annual increase in the
consumer price index for urban consumers. Any free-standing detoxification center
which has an established rate below the average and, due to a material change in circumstances resulting in financial hardship, is aggrieved by a rate determined pursuant to
this subsection may, within ten days of receipt of written notice of such rate from the
commissioner, request in writing a hearing on such rate. The commissioner shall, upon
the receipt of all documentation necessary to evaluate the request, determine whether
there has been such a change in circumstances and shall conduct a hearing if appropriate.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-8, S. 16, 63; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-16, S. 33, 89; P.A. 93-262, S. 1, 87; 93-418, S. 23, 41.)
History: May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-16 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) by adding provision to each requiring that any rate
increases made during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1993, shall not exceed the most recent annual increase in the consumer
price index for urban consumers; P.A. 93-262 authorized substitution of commissioner and department of social services
for commissioner and department of income maintenance, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-418 amended Subsec. (b) to
make provisions applicable to the fiscal years ending June 30, 1994, and June 30, 1995 and added provision regarding
free-standing detoxification centers' request for hearing on a rate established by the commissioner, effective July 1, 1993;
Sec. 17-312b transferred to Sec. 17b-241 in 1995.