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Control Number: <br />411.06.03.001 <br />Version: <br />7.0 <br />Title: <br />Co-Pay for Medical Services <br /> <br />Page Number: <br />3 of 5 <br /> <br />Idaho Department of Correction <br />2. Medical Co-Pay Process for Inmates in Non-IDOC Facilities <br />Inmates may be charged medical co-pay when housed in out-of-state and county jails <br />governed by contract or memorandum of understanding. <br />If an out-of-state facility or county jail charges co-pay, the limits are: <br />• $2 co-pay for inmate-initiated request for medical or dental services <br />A non-IDOC facility must not deny IDOC inmates medical, dental, mental health, or <br />pharmacy services because the inmate cannot pay. <br />3. Health Care Services Requiring Payment of Medical Co-Pay Fee <br />Medical co-pay fees are as follows: <br />Prison Inmates, CRC Inmate Facility Workers, and Unemployed CRC Work Release <br />Inmates <br />• $2 co-pay for each inmate-initiated sick call service from a physician, physician <br />assistant, nurse practitioner, nurse, health care professional, dental, optometry, or <br />emergency evaluation and treatment <br />• Co-pay charges are the same for general population and segr egated inmates. <br />Employed CRC Work Release Inmates <br />• $10 co-pay for inmate-initiated sick call service from a physician, physician assistant, <br />nurse practitioner, nurse, health care professional, dental, optometry, or emergency <br />evaluation and treatment. <br />4. Pharmacy Services Requiring Payment of Medical Co-Pay Fee <br />Whether medications are dispensed to the inmate in self-medicate or ‘keep-on-person’ <br />quantities or by individual unit doses, all medical prescriptions are ordered by health care <br />providers in quantities and durations that are medically appropriate and according to all <br />applicable laws and regulations. <br />Pharmacy service medical co-pay fees are as follows : <br />Prison Inmates, CRC Inmate Facility Workers, and Unemployed CRC Work Release <br />Inmates <br />There is no co-pay for prescription or OTC medication. <br />Employed CRC Work Release Inmates <br />There is a $5 pharmacy services medical co-pay for inmates receiving over-the-counter <br />or prescription medications for each course, treatment, or per prescription . <br />When a health care professional approves, reevaluates, renews, rewrites, or refills a <br />medication order, that transaction is a new prescription and subject to a co -pay charge. <br />Renewed over-the-counter or prescription medications are charged a co-pay fee. <br />Co-pay fees are charged every ninety days for the renewal of any maintenance medication <br />except those covered under chronic disease clinics.