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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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