Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 1069
Section 33-2-1109 - Prohibition on maintenance at state's expense(a) No service recipient may receive care at the expense of the state in a program operated by the department except:(2) A person subject to evaluation, diagnosis or treatment under chapter 7, part 3 of this title and charged with a felony, or chapter 7, part 4 of this title;(3) A person whose service is paid for, in part, by state or federal government and the payment is conditioned on the department's acceptance of it as full satisfaction of the person's liability; or(4) A person whose service is paid for by the service recipient or another person or a third party and the department determines, under standards approved by the commissioner of finance and administration and the comptroller of the treasury, that the state's interests are best served by accepting payment offered as full satisfaction of the service recipient's liability.(b) Subdivision (a)(4) does not apply to any claim for payment for which the state has a suit pending to recover payment.Amended by 2024 Tenn. Acts, ch. 688,s 52, eff. 7/1/2024.Acts 1983, ch. 323, § 32; 1996, ch. 795, § 9; T.C.A., § 33-4-112; Acts 2000, ch. 947, § 1; 2002, ch. 730, § 7; 2009 , ch. 531, § 33.