SB 6573-S - DIGEST |
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE) |
Requires the state health care authority to: (1) Integrate risk for long-term involuntary civil treatment provided by state hospitals into managed care contracts; and |
(2) Develop a psychiatric managed care capitation risk model that integrates long-term inpatient care. |
Requires a behavioral health organization to have representation, including involvement by community mental health providers, on the hospital clinical discharge planning team. |
Provides that the state intends to: (1) Develop new capacity for delivery of long-term treatment in the community in diverse regions of the state before the effective date of the integration of risk for long-term involuntary treatment into managed care; and |
(2) Study the cost and outcomes associated with treatment in community facilities. |
Requires the department of social and health services to: (1) Collaborate with the state health care authority and appropriate stakeholders and consultants to develop and implement a detailed transition plan; |
(2) Purchase a portion of the state's long-term treatment capacity allocated to behavioral health organizations in willing community facilities capable of providing alternatives to treatment in a state hospital; and |
(3) Enter into performance-based contracts with facilities certified by the department to provide treatment to adults on a ninety or one hundred eighty-day inpatient involuntary commitment order. |