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The rate per patient day to be paid by the county under contract to any hospital not eligible for the state aid program shall not exceed the hospital's audited cost per patient day for the last succeeding audit year; provided, that in no event shall payment by the county to such contract hospital exceed thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents ($38.50) per patient day. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 89-58.)
The county is further authorized from time to time to pay cost of care or residents of the county eligible under section 25-58 at hospitals with which the county does not have a contract for care, for emergency admissions, for treatment not obtainable at a contract hospital or for other necessary reasons; provided, that such payment shall not exceed the hospital's audited cost per patient day; provided further, that such payment shall in no event be more than seventeen dollars ($17.00) per patient day. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 89-59; 1970 L.M.C., ch. 25, § 2.)
The rate of payment to be made by the county to any hospital or clinic for out-patient visits for county eligible patients certified in accordance with section 25-58 shall not exceed the actual cost to the hospital or clinic of such visit, as determined by a method of accounting approved by the state department of health for computation of such costs, or sixty dollars ($60.00) per visit, whichever is less; such payment to include all medical, surgical, laboratory, X-ray, drug and other costs and charges of every kind and description. If the cost of such visit is paid in part by the state, or any other governmental or charitable agency or other source, the county shall in no event pay more than the difference between the other payment and the actual cost or six dollars ($6.00), whichever is less. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 89-60.)