3-15-505 - Legislative intent Duties of committee Review of expenditures. [Effective until June 30, 2014. See the Compiler's Notes.] - Tennessee Statutes

3-15-505. Legislative intent Duties of committee Review of expenditures. [Effective until June 30, 2014. See the Compiler's Notes.]

(a)  It is the intent of this part that plans be made carefully and be reviewed thoroughly to help ensure that the TennCare program will achieve its intended purpose, to help ensure that access and quality of health care are maintained for TennCare enrollees, and to help ensure that the general assembly and the public can have confidence that the state will deliver a TennCare program which is effective and efficient.

(b)  To these ends, the committee shall review proposed expenditures for TennCare and shall make its comments on proposed expenditures in a timely fashion according to this section.

(c)  Any proposed expenditure of funds, including TennCare funds to managed care organizations (MCOs) or the distribution of supplemental pool funds to providers, any administrative or management changes requiring additional expenditures, and any proposed expenditure for expanding or otherwise changing the TennCare program, shall be filed in writing by the commissioner of health with the committee and may be reviewed by the committee. After any such review, the committee may comment to the commissioner of finance and administration on the proposed expenditures; provided, that any such comment shall be made within thirty (30) days after receipt by the committee of the proposal for such expenditures. If such expenditures are made before the committee has made its comments, if any, or if expenditures are made which are inconsistent with the comments of the committee, the commissioner of finance and administration shall explain in writing the reasons for making such expenditures to the committee and each other member of the general assembly.

[Acts 1994, ch. 830, § 6; 1999, ch. 226, § 1.]