Bill Text: AZ SB1609 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed
Bill Title: Behavioral health; AHCCCS; health facilities
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-05-29 - Chapter 200 [SB1609 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2024-SB1609-Engrossed.html
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Senate Engrossed
AHCCCS; personal health information (now: behavioral health; AHCCCS; health facilities) |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session 2024
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SENATE BILL 1609 |
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An Act
amending title 36, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-425.10; amending title 36, chapter 29, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding sections 36-2903.14 and 36-2903.15; relating to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-425.10, to read:
36-425.10. Patients with serious mental illness; transfer or discharge; medications; documentation
If a patient with a serious mental illness is transferred or discharged from a health care institution to another health care institution, residential placement or group home, the health care institution that is transferring or discharging the patient shall provide to the patient a thirty-day supply of all medications, both prescription and over-the-counter, the patient was given in the previous ten days that are ongoing or to be taken as needed. Each medication must include clear documented instructions that are signed by the patient or the patient's parent or guardian, the discharge team and the intake team.
Sec. 2. Title 36, chapter 29, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding sections 36-2903.14 and 36-2903.15, to read:
36-2903.14. Personal health information; duplicative paperwork requirements
A. The administration shall require its contracted housing program administrators to review and minimize duplicative paperwork requirements for and limit the number of contractors and entities that unnecessarily receive personal health information of members with serious mental illness who are receiving services pursuant to this chapter or chapter 34 of this title.
B. contracted housing program administrators may not sell or otherwise share any member's personal health information, unless authorized or required by state or federal law, including the health insurance portability and accountability act privacy standards (45 Code of federal regulations part 160 and part 164, subpart E).
36-2903.15. Peer specialists; qualifications; oversight; training; annual report
A. The administration shall develop and implement processes to monitor its contractors' oversight of peer specialists to ensure that the peer specialists meet qualifications and receive the required supervision and training.
B. Beginning October 1, 2025, In addition to any other qualifications, peer specialists shall complete training that is developed by the administration and that includes psychosis-specific content, including anosognosia.
C. On or before November 1, 2024 and each November 1 thereafter, The administration shall provide an annual report to the Governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on the development, implementation and monitoring processes required by this section.
Sec. 3. Arizona health care cost containment system administration; study; report
On or before January 31, 2025, the Arizona health care cost containment system administration shall:
1. Study the implementation of developing and distributing a real-time, automated survey to members with a serious mental illness, or their representatives, to collect feedback, identify quality of care issues and respond to the needs of members. In studying the implementation of the survey, the administration shall solicit and consider input from the public, including, at a minimum, individuals with a serious mental illness and their representatives.
2. Report to the joint legislative budget committee and the chairpersons of the health and human services committees of the senate and house of representatives on the development and implementation costs that would be incurred by the administration.
