475. An agency may, if it considers it in the public interest and justified by the needs of the region, enter into an agreement with a private institution for either of the following purposes:(1) compensation for the health and social services it provides under the agreement, at a rate fixed by the Government for any class of centres or services it designates;
(2) full or partial reimbursement for expenditures eligible for subsidies under the budgetary rules referred to in section 465.
The terms and conditions of financing set out in an agreement entered into pursuant to the first paragraph are subject to the provisions of section 476. The same applies in the case of the renewal of such an agreement.
In case of disagreement between an agency and a private institution as regards the determination of the terms and conditions of financing applicable under an agreement or upon the renewal of an agreement, the agency may, six months after the beginning of discussions, apply to the Minister for a determination of such terms and conditions.
1991, c. 42, s. 475; 1998, c. 39, s. 153; 2005, c. 32, s. 227.