Bill Text: AZ HB2334 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Regional behavioral health authorities; requirements
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-5)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-27 - Senate Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended [HB2334 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2012-HB2334-Engrossed.html
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Senate Engrossed House Bill |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fiftieth Legislature Second Regular Session 2012
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HOUSE BILL 2334 |
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AN ACT
AMENDING section 36-3410, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to behavioral health services.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 36-3410, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-3410. Regional behavioral health authorities; contracts; monthly summaries; inspection; copying fee; children's behavioral health and seriously mentally ill services; committee; report
A. If the department contracts with behavioral health contractors which would act as regional behavioral health authorities or directly with a service provider for behavioral health services, the department and each behavioral health contractor or service provider shall prepare and make available monthly summary statements, in a format prescribed by the department, that separately detail by title XIX and nontitle XIX and by service category and service type, as defined by contract with the department, the number of clients served, the units of service provided and the state and federal monies distributed through the department to each regional behavioral health authority or direct contract service provider and the amounts distributed by each regional behavioral health authority or direct contract service provider to their its subcontractors. The director may require additional information in the monthly statement which that the director determines to be critical for proper regulation and oversight of the regional behavioral health authority or the direct contract service provider.
B. For services provided directly by a regional behavioral health authority, the maximum reimbursement to that regional behavioral health authority shall be thirty per cent above the Arizona health care cost containment system fee for service rate for the particular service rendered.
C. Except as provided in subsections D and E of this section, behavioral health contractors under contract with the department to act as regional behavioral health authorities may perform only managed care functions. Regional behavioral health authorities and their subsidiaries shall not deliver behavioral health services directly to clients. The prohibition on regional behavioral health authorities and their subsidiaries delivering behavioral health services directly to clients shall be fully implemented by September 1, 2009.
D. If a direct services behavioral health provider experiences contract performance failure, the regional behavioral health authority, after receiving approval from the department, may provide direct care services for only as long as necessary to assure delivery of uninterrupted care to clients and either:
1. Accomplish the orderly transition of those members to a new provider or other existing providers.
2. Until the provider in question reorganizes or otherwise corrects the contract performance failure.
E. Subsection C of this section does not apply to a regional behavioral health authority operated by a federally recognized Indian tribe.
F. In the contracts specified under subsection A of this section, the department may include a provision to charge for services provided at the state hospital. The charges are only for clients on whose behalf the contractor has been paid by the department.
G. The summaries and the contracts on which they are based are open to public inspection. The department and each regional behavioral health authority or direct contract service provider shall make the summaries available for inspection and copying at the office of each regional behavioral health authority or direct contract service provider and at the department.
H. The department and a regional behavioral health authority or direct contract service provider shall charge a copying fee which that is not in excess of the actual cost of reproduction or the amount charged by the secretary of state pursuant to section 41‑126, whichever is less.
I. Copying fees received by the department, pursuant to subsection H of this section, shall be placed in the state general fund.
J. Monies appropriated for fiscal year 2001‑2002 and each fiscal year thereafter for children's behavioral health services shall be spent on services only as prescribed by the appropriation and may not be used for any other purpose.
K. Monies appropriated for fiscal year 2007‑2008 and each fiscal year thereafter for seriously mentally ill services shall be spent on services only as prescribed by the appropriation and shall not be used for any other purpose.
L. Beginning January 1, 2013, at least ninety days before the department issues a request for proposals or ninety days before extending an existing contract for a regional behavioral health authority pursuant to title 41, chapter 23, the director shall appoint a committee of at least five but not more than nine members, a majority of whom reside in the geographically specific service area of this state in which the contracted regional behavioral health authority is to provide services. In selecting the committee members, the director shall select members who have experience in behavioral health services and who are able to be objective in the assessment of behavioral health services and related matters in the applicable geographic service area. This section does not require the department to disclose the content, language or specifications in the request for proposal before its official release by the department's procurement officer. Committee members are not eligible to receive compensation or reimbursement for expenses. The department shall make available through its website an opportunity for public comment regarding the request for proposals. The committee shall submit a written report to the department. The report shall include all of the following information:
1. The needs of providers and consumers that are not currently addressed in the existing regional behavioral health contract.
2. The needs of providers and consumers that are currently being addressed in the existing regional behavioral health contract.
3. Opportunities for efficiency and the reduction of administrative burdens.
M. The department shall post the report prescribed in subsection L of this section on its website within seven days of receipt of the report.
