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REFERENCE TITLE: behavioral health; dependent children; reports |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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SB 1397 |
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Introduced by Senator Barto
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AN ACT
Amending Laws 2013, chapter 220, section 7, as amended by Laws 2016, chapter 273, section 1; relating to behavioral health services.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Laws 2013, chapter 220, section 7, as amended by Laws 2016, chapter 273, section 1, is amended to read:
Sec. 7. Behavioral health services; accountability measures; reports
A. Beginning on the last day of the month following the effective date of this act through December 31, 2018 2020, the Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall prepare and issue a quarterly financial and program accountability trends report to the governor, the chairpersons of the house of representatives health and children and family affairs committees, the chairperson of the senate health and human services committee, the director of the joint legislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting. The administration shall provide a copy of each report to the secretary of state. The report shall use the following accountability factors by geographic service areas for children enrolled in the comprehensive medical and dental program:
1. The number and percentage of children in the comprehensive medical and dental program who have received behavioral health services, excluding the original assessment, through a regional behavioral health authority as of the end of each month.
2. The number of new behavioral health cases opened each month, the total number of cases that remain open from the current and previous months and the total number of cases that have been closed each month.
3. The type of behavioral health services the children received and the costs of each of those services.
4. The number of notices of action received and for what reason and the outcome of those notices.
5. The number of notice of appeals filed and for what reason, the outcomes of those appeals by the administrative law judge and the final decisions reached by the director of the Arizona health care cost containment system.
B. Beginning on the last day of the month following the effective date of this act through December 31, 2018 2020, the department of child safety shall issue a quarterly financial and program accountability trend report to the governor, the chairpersons of the house of representatives health and children and family affairs committees, the chairperson of the senate health and human services committee, the director of the joint legislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting. The department shall submit a copy of each report to the secretary of state. Each report shall use the following accountability factors by county:
1. The number and percentage of children who are in foster care and who are title XIX eligible as of the end of that month.
2. The number of new title XIX eligible children opened in that month, the total number of children that remain open from the current and previous months and the total number of children who have been closed in that month.
3. The amount of nontitle XIX expenditures by service type used by the department to supplement the behavioral health services received through the regional behavioral health authorities.