618 - Performance and accountability.
§ 618. Performance and accountability. The commissioner shall establish, in consultation with the municipalities, uniform statewide performance standards for the services funded pursuant to this article; provided, however, the commissioner may modify a specific standard for a municipality if such municipality demonstrates adequate justification. The commissioner shall recognize the particular needs and capabilities of the various municipalities. The commissioner shall monitor the expenditures of each municipality to ensure that each one satisfies the performance standards. Any municipality failing to satisfy its standards may be subject to a reduction or loss of aid until such municipality can demonstrate that it has the capacity to satisfy such standards. The commissioner shall establish a uniform accounting system for monitoring the expenditures for services of each municipality to which aid is granted, and for determining the appropriateness of the costs of such services. The commissioner shall also establish a uniform reporting system to determine the appropriateness of the amount and types of services provided, and the number of people receiving such services. Such reporting system shall also require information on the amount of public health moneys received from the federal government, the private sector, grants, and fees. Each such municipality shall comply with the regulations of such accounting and reporting systems. The commissioner shall determine the extent to which the services maintained and improved the health status of a municipality's residents and maintained and improved the accessibility and quality of care, and controlled costs of the health care system.