The Arizona Revised Statutes have been updated to include the revised sections from the 56th Legislature, 1st Regular Session. Please note that the next update of this compilation will not take place until after the conclusion of the 56th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session, which convenes in January 2024.
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A. On or before January 2, 2020 and each year thereafter, the director of the Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall submit a report to the director of the joint legislative budget committee on the availability of inpatient psychiatric treatment both for adults and for children and adolescents who receive services from the regional behavioral health authorities. The report shall include all of the following information:
1. The total number of inpatient psychiatric treatment beds available and the occupancy rate for those beds.
2. Expenditures on inpatient psychiatric treatment.
3. The total number of individuals in this state who are sent out of state for inpatient psychiatric treatment.
4. The prevalence of psychiatric boarding or holding psychiatric patients in emergency rooms for at least twenty-four hours before transferring the patients to a psychiatric facility.
B. The report shall provide the information specified in subsection A of this section separately for adults who are at least twenty-one years of age and for children and adolescents who are twenty years of age or younger.