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title: Title 37, Chapter 9. Payment of Expenses for Support, Treatment, and Care of Patients in State Institutions Generally
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date: 2025
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heading: PAYMENT OF EXPENSES FOR SUPPORT, TREATMENT, AND CARE OF PATIENTS IN STATE INSTITUTIONS GENERALLY
title_heading: MENTAL HEALTH
section_count: 13
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# Title 37, Chapter 9. Payment of Expenses for Support, Treatment, and Care of Patients in State Institutions Generally

Title 37. Mental Health

13 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue).

- 37-9-1, Short title, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-1.md
- 37-9-2, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-2.md
- 37-9-3, Payment for cost of care as not affecting nature or quality of care, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-3.md
- 37-9-4, Liability of patient for cost of care; time of payment; inability of department to collect assessment from patient or failure of patient’s assessment to cover cost of care, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-4.md
- 37-9-5, Assessment of persons liable for cost of care generally, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-5.md
- 37-9-6, Standards for determination of assessments for less than full cost of care, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-6.md
- 37-9-7, Inquiry into and determination of income and assets; declarations by persons liable for cost of care; access to income tax records; confidentiality; attestation of indigent financial status, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-7.md
- 37-9-8, Use of assets other than income for determination of assessments; assets exempt from determination; levy of assessment, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-8.md
- 37-9-9, Exhaustion of benefits under other programs or plans required prior to expenditure of public funds; determination of assessments; assignment of benefits; subrogation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-9.md
- 37-9-10, Hearings, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-10.md
- 37-9-11, Billing by department; authority to maintain action for collection, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-11.md
- 37-9-12, Deposit of funds collected, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-12.md
- 37-9-13, Promulgation of rules and regulations by board, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/37-9-13.md