Contracting with private health care providers.
A relief agency may use a relief block grant to provide health care services directly or, if the conditions in this subsection are met, by contracting with private health care providers, or by a combination of contracting with private health care providers and providing services directly. A relief agency may contract with a private health care provider to provide health care services under this subsection only if all of the following conditions are met:
(a)#
The relief agency enters into a contract with the private health care provider to provide specified health care services.
(b)#
The contract between the relief agency and the private health care provider provides that all records of the health care provider relating to the administration and provision of the health care services shall be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by authorized representatives of the tribal governing body and the department.
(d)#
The contract limits payment for services under the contract to the amount payable by medical assistance for care for which a medical assistance rate exists.
(e)#
The contract does not provide for payment for hospitalization or care provided as uncompensated services required under 42 USC 291c.
(f)#
The contract prohibits the health care provider from holding an individual recipient of health care services funded under this section liable for the difference between the costs of the health care services and the amount paid to the health care provider by the tribal governing body for the services.