HB 1373-S2 - DIGEST |
(DIGEST AS ENACTED) |
Requires the department of social and health services and the children's mental health evidence-based practice institute established in RCW 71.24.061 to collaborate to encourage and develop incentives for the use of prescribing practices and evidence-based and research-based treatment practices developed under RCW 74.09.490 by mental health professionals serving children under RCW 74.09.521. |
Eliminates the expiration date for increasing the annual number of office visits available to children needing outpatient mental health therapy in managed care programs and on a fee-for-service basis. |
Provides that the act is null and void if appropriations are not approved. |