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The bill requires the department of health care policy and
financing to analyze how directed payment authority can be used as part
of a comprehensive plan to facilitate an adequate network of services for
children and youth by requiring each managed care entity to pay no less
than state department-established fee schedule rates for services needed
to promote clinical stabilization.
No later than July 1, 2023, the bill requires the department of
human services (CDHS) to form a working group to make
recommendations about developing an incentive funding pool pilot
program to incentivize residential treatment providers to accept and treat
children and youth who have high-acuity behavioral health needs to
appropriate treatment and placement.
The bill requires the behavioral health administration (BHA) to
develop a framework to measure and assess how the behavioral health
system for children and youth is functioning, which framework must
include measures of accountability for children and youth who are
boarding or in extended stay.
Beginning September 1, 2023, and each quarter thereafter until
October 1, 2024, the bill requires each hospital to report de-identified
information to the BHA on the total number of children and youth
patients who were boarding or had extended stay in the previous quarter;
if known, how many children and youth who were boarding or had
extended stay and were in county custody at the time; and, for patients
who were discharged during the quarter, where the patients were
discharged to.
Beginning September 1, 2023, and each quarter thereafter until
October 1, 2024, the bill requires CDHS to report de-identified
information to the BHA on the total number of children and youth in the
custody of, or who had involvement with, a county department of human
or social services who spent time at least overnight in a hotel or a county
department office as a stopgap setting or remained in detention when the
child or youth could have been released but no placement was available.
No later than September 1, 2023, and each quarter thereafter until
October 1, 2024, the bill requires the BHA to report aggregated and
de-identified information submitted to the BHA to the BHA advisory
council and to the child and youth mental health service standards
advisory board.
The bill requires CDHS to develop a plan for whenever a
residential treatment facility for children and youth closes or has a
substantial change in operation to support children and youth treatment
capacity elsewhere in a manner that most appropriately serves the
behavioral health needs of the child or youth.
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