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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, Second Regular Session
community health centers; graduate education
Purpose
Removes the specification that monies distributed by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) to qualifying community health centers and rural health clinics be for the costs associated with primary care graduate medical education (GME) programs and instead requires the monies to be distributed for direct and indirect costs.
Background
Subject to the availability of monies, AHCCCS must enter into an intergovernmental agreement with the Department of Health Services to contract with qualifying community health centers to provide primary health care services to indigent or uninsured Arizonans. AHCCCS annually distributes monies appropriated for GME to reimburse qualifying community health centers and rural health clinics that have an approved primary care GME program for the direct or indirect costs of the programs.
A qualifying community health center is a community-based primary care facility that provides medical care in medically underserved areas as prescribed through the employment of physicians, professional nurses, physician assistants or other health care technical and paraprofessional personnel (A.R.S. § 36-2907.06).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
2. Makes technical and conforming changes.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
March 1, 2024
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