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EXHIBIT 10.21
ADDENDUM NO. 2
TENNESSEE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, INC.
PROVIDER AGREEMENT (ENTITY)
This Addendum No. 2 to that certain Provider Agreement ("Agreement")
between Tennessee Behavioral Health, Inc. ("TBH") and the undersigned health
care provider ("Provider"), with an effective date of December 11, 1995, is
entered into as of the date set forth below in order to amend the Agreement to
comply with the requirements of The TennCare Partners Program of the State of
Tennessee, Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation ("State") defined
in Addendum No. 1 to the Agreement as the Plan Contract. All capitalized terms
used in this Addendum No. 2 shall have the same meaning as used in the Agreement
and Addendum No. 1.
Pursuant to Article XIII of the Agreement, the parties hereby agree to
amend Addendum No. 1 and the Agreement as follows:
1. AMENDMENT TO EXHIBIT 1. Exhibit 1 to the Agreement is deleted in its
entirety and a new Exhibit 1 in the form attached to this Addendum No. 2 as
Exhibit 1 shall be substituted in lieu thereof.
2. DELETION OF ATTACHMENT 1. All references in Addendum No. 1 to
Covered Services, including any reference to Attachment 1, are hereby deleted in
their entirety from the Agreement and Attachment 1 is deleted from the
Agreement.
3. CLAIMS INFORMATION. Provider shall submit to TBH all necessary
information to permit TBH, when determining liabilities on its annual report and
quarterly financial reports, to include an amount estimated in the aggregate to
provide for any unearned premium and for the payment of all claims for health
care expenditures that have been incurred pursuant to or under the Plan
Contract, whether reported, unreported or unpaid or for which TBH is or may be
liable, and to provide for the expense, adjustment or settlement of such claims.
Provider acknowledges that such liabilities must be computed by TBH in
accordance with procedures to be established by the State upon reasonable
consideration of the ascertained experience and character of TBH.
4. CONFLICT OF INTEREST. Provider warrants that no part of any payments
made pursuant to the Agreement shall be paid directly or indirectly to any
officer, employee, delegate or member of the legislative body of the State or of
the United States Government as wages, compensation, or gifts in exchange for
acting as officer, agent, employee, subcontractor or consultant to Provider in
connection with any work contemplated or performed relative to the Agreement.
Provider shall be declared in default by TBH if it is determined that Provider,
its officers, agents, employees, subcontractors or consultants offered or gave
gratuities of any kind to any official, employee or delegate or member of any
legislative body of the State or the United States Government.
5. TERM. The provisions of Article V of the Agreement are deleted in
their entirety and the following language is substituted in lieu thereof:
"This Agreement shall have an initial term of two (2) years
beginning December 11, 1995, and ending December 10, 1997.
This Agreement shall automatically renew for successive
one-year terms, unless and until terminated by either party
pursuant to Article VI."
6. TERMINATION. Section 6.2 of the Agreement is amended by adding the
following new subsection; deleting the word "or" from Subsection 6.2.6 and
deleting the "," from Subsection 6.2.7 and adding "; or" to the end of such
subsection:
"6.2.8 TBH shall fail to enter a Provider Risk Contract with
the State for the TennCare Partners Program by July 1, 1996,
or such contract, if entered into by TBH and the State, is
terminated for any reason during the term of the Agreement."
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7. AMENDMENTS. Section 13.1 of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety
and the following is added in lieu thereof:
"13.1 RIGHT OF APPROVAL AND EFFECTIVE DATE. All amendments to
this Agreement proposed by Provider must be agreed to in
writing in advance of the Effective Date by TBH. TBH reserves
the right to reject any proposed amendment in its absolute
discretion. Any amendments to this Agreement proposed by TBH
must be proposed in the form of an Addendum forwarded to
Provider in the manner specified in Section 13.2 and will be
deemed effective upon the earlier of such Addendum's execution
by the parties or the expiration of twenty (20) calendar days
after receipt of such Addendum (determined under Article XVI)
unless within such twenty (20) day period Provider notifies
TBH in writing of Provider's rejection of the requested
amendment. Amendments required because of legislative,
regulatory or legal requirements or because of requirements
imposed by the State or pursuant to any amendment to the Plan
Contract shall not require the consent of Provider or TBH and
will be effective as of the date specified in the Addendum
containing such amendment."
8. EFFECTIVE DATE OF AGREEMENT. The provisions of Article XXII of the
Agreement are deleted in their entirety and the following language is inserted
in lieu thereof:
"This Agreement shall be effective as of December 11, 1995."
9. AMENDMENT TO ADDENDUM NO. 1. The third paragraph of Addendum No. 1
titled "Effective Date" is deleted in its entirety and the following paragraph
is inserted in lieu thereof:
"EFFECTIVE DATE. This Addendum shall become effective as of
December 11, 1995."
10. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ADDENDUM NO. 2. Notwithstanding that the
provisions of Section 13.1 of this Agreement currently provide that any
amendment to the Agreement shall become effective after a period of twenty (20)
days during which Provider has an option to accept or reject such Amendment, the
parties agree that, by signing below, each party agrees to make this Addendum
No. 2 effective as of February 4, 1996, and that the provisions of this Addendum
are incorporated into the Agreement effective as of such date.
11. DELETION OF PARAGRAPH 3.1.7. Paragraph 3.1.7 of the Agreement is
hereby deleted in its entirety. During the term of the Agreement, TBH shall be
the sole party responsible for paying for Designated Covered Services provided
by Provider under this Agreement.
12. SPECIAL TBH REPRESENTATION. TBH represents and warrants that TBH as
of this date has not entered into any exclusive arrangements for case management
and related services. TBH further represents and warrants that the payments to
be made to Provider hereunder are not subject to any priority right of any other
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provider whereby any other provider must be paid its percentage of premium, all
inclusive per diem, program or capitated rate for case management or related
services prior to Provider being paid for Designated Covered Service rendered by
Provider under this Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Addendum No. 2 in
multiple counterparts (including the use of counterpart signature pages, if
necessary) as of February 1, 1996.
PROVIDER (ENTITY): TBH:
TENNESSEE MENTAL HEALTH COOPERATIVE, INC. TENNESSEE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH,
INC.
By: /s/ Xxx Xxxxxx By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx, Xx.
Title: President Title: Chief Operating Officer
Date: February 4, 1996 Date: February 4, 1996
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[EXHIBITS EXCLUDED]
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