(at the request of House Interim Committee on Behavioral Health for Representative Hai Pham)
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Bill Title:
Relating to health care.
Catchline/Summary:
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is comparable to access to medical and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment. Digest: The Act makes changes to laws relating to mental health and SUD treatment. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5).
[Provides that a community mental health program is not responsible for the cost of emergency psychiatric care, custody and treatment when state funds provided to the community mental health program are exhausted.]
Requires the Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations to ensure that access to behavioral health treatment in the medical assistance program is [no more burdensome than] comparable to access to medical [or] and surgical treatment and that limitations are applied to behavioral health treatment no more stringently than to medical and surgical treatment.
Prohibits the authority or a contracted external quality review organization, under certain circumstances, from making a negative finding about or imposing a penalty on a coordinated care organization based on documents or templates created by the authority for use by a coordinated care organization.
Modifies certain statutes to clarify roles and responsibilities for the delivery of behavioral health services and to update terminology.
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