Resources: Contract Health Services (CHS) Manual
The manual defines the effective management based on Congressional legislation, funding, and authority for CHS program. The CHS program's responsibility is in support of the IHS direct care services by contracting services with non-IHS providers for health care services. The manual is application of the legislation with the governing regulations, policies, guidance's published for the program's management.
The program management is the administrative resources, patient eligibility, contracting (authorizing purchase), fiscal functions, alternate resources identification, CHS delivery area, catastrophic health emergency fund (CHEF), patient education, appeal process, applying the IHS medical priority requirements, fiscal intermediary, patient transportation, and CHS related information systems.
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