WSR 15-13-083
HEALTH CARE AUTHORITY
[Filed June 15, 2015, 7:37 a.m.]
NOTICE
Title or Subject: Medicaid State Plan Amendment (SPA) 15-0032 Substance Use Disorder.
Effective Date: July 1, 2015.
Description: The health care authority in conjunction with the division of behavioral health and recovery (DBHR) in the aging and disability services administration in the department of social and health services anticipates submitting medicaid SPA 15-0032 as a result of a final operating budget being passed by the state legislature and signed by the governor. If the budget is passed as anticipated, SPA 15-0032 will update the effective date of the fee schedule for alcohol and drug treatment and detoxification services (substance use disorder services) as of July 1, 2015.
The anticipated increases are as follows:
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Group outpatient treatment services six percent.
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Opiate substitution treatment fifteen percent.
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Pregnant and parenting women residential treatment services sixty-three percent.
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Pregnant and parenting women cooccurring residential treatment services nineteen percent.
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Pregnant and parenting women support services twenty-nine percent.
Because submission of this SPA depends on a final operating budget being passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, this notice is anticipatory at this time.
Updating the effective date of the fee schedules is not anticipated to have an effect on annual aggregate expenditures.
If this SPA is necessary, it will be developed when the state operating budget is finalized; therefore a copy is not yet available for review. To contact DBHR for additional information and a copy of the SPA when it becomes available, please contact Sandra Mena-Tyree, DBHR, P.O. Box 45330, Olympia, WA 98504-5330, phone (360) 725-3750, TDD/TTY 1-800-833-6384, fax (360) 725-2280, e-mail MenaSA@dshs.wa.gov.