Sec. PP-1. Managed behavioral health care services system. The Department of Health and Human Services shall establish a system of managed behavioral health care services to provide community support services, mental health services, private nonmedical institution services, psychological services and substance abuse services. The system must be implemented through a contract with an entity that:
1. Has not been and may not be throughout the duration of the contract a provider of any of the services that are the subject of and provided under the managed care system;
2. Demonstrates successful delivery of managed care systems in behavioral health within geographic and demographic parameters comparable to the State's;
3. Demonstrates that the system of managed care is based on assessed consumer needs in order to recover behavorial health and that positive client outcome will drive the system;
4. Will accommodate generally accepted state-of-the-art care and treatment when it is part of a child and family intervention requirement or in the context of any of the State's consent decrees or settlement agreements; and
5. Ensures the data derived from the managed care system will be prepared to demonstrate the efficacy of the program and will be made available periodically to the Legislature as well as consumers, family members, providers and advocacy groups.
Sec. PP-2. Reporting requirements. If implementation of the managed behavioral health care services system required under section 1, subsection 1 does not result in the budgeted savings for fiscal year 2006-07, the Commissioner of Health and Human Services shall provide the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs and health and human services with alternative proposals to achieve the savings prior to any rulemaking to implement the alternative. Once the managed care program is underway, any substantive changes to the program, such as financing methodology, must be approved by the Legislature.
Sec. PP-3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (Formerly BDS)
Departmentwide 0019
Initiative: Deappropriates funds for savings to be achieved by implementing the managed behavioral health care services system.
GENERAL FUND 2005-06 2006-07
All Other $0 ($10,431,749)
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GENERAL FUND TOTAL $0 ($10,431,749)
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