Direct purchase procurement process requirements -- Payment information on website

(1) The department may, without issuing a solicitation, directly purchase from, or contract with, another person for the following human services procurement items: (a) medical, dental, behavioral, psychological, psychiatric, or substance use evaluation and treatment for an individual; (b) assistance payments on behalf of an individual that are intended to keep the individual out of a higher level of care or prevent or reduce the need for additional department services; (c) services for which the individual receiving the services has the right to choose the person who provides the services; (d) services for which the department makes a written determination, made available to the public, that the individual's need to receive services from a particular provider outweigh the public interest in issuing a competitive procurement; (e) adoption subsidy and maintenance payments; (f) child placing services for an individual adoption; (g) death investigation services; or (h) residential treatment services for an individual after all providers under contract from a competitive procurement are exhausted. (2) The department shall: (a) maintain a written record of the name of all persons who provide services under this section; and (b) annually publish on the department's website the total amount paid to each person under this section during the immediately preceding five-year period.