(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Medical Provider" means a physician, hospital, laboratory, pharmacy, or other health care provider that is not employed by or under contract to or with the City and provides medical services to a person who is imprisoned in an institution and that person is under the control of, or was imprisoned at the direction of, or in the custody of, the City and/or a law enforcement officer of the City.
(2) "Medically Necessary Care" means medical care from a Medical Provider that is of a nonelective nature and that cannot be postponed until after the person who is imprisoned, as set forth in subsection (a)(1) above, is released, without endangering the life or health of the person.
(b) The City is not liable for medical care that is not medically necessary.
(c) If the City is found to be liable for medically necessary care, the City's obligation to pay or reimburse for medical care that is medically necessary care is limited to an amount not exceeding the amount Medicaid would pay for the care provided if Medicaid covered the same kind of medically necessary care.
(Ord. 61-2009. Passed 9-22-09.)