S681 - Agency Policy Directives/2019-2020. (SL 2020-78)

Overview: Section 4E.1 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to report by no later than December 1, 2020 and by no later than December 1, 2021, to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and the Fiscal Research Division on the following:

• A uniform system for beds or bed days purchased during the preceding fiscal year from specified funds.

• An explanation of the process used by the Department to ensure that, local inpatient psychiatric beds or bed days purchased in accordance with this section are utilized solely for individuals who are medically indigent and the number of medically indigent served by these beds or bed days.

• The amount of funds used to pay for facility-based crisis services and to pay for nonhospital detoxification services, along with the number of individuals who received these services and the outcomes for each individual.

• Other Department initiatives funded by State appropriations to reduce State psychiatric hospital use.

This section became effective July 1, 2020.