No. SB 1302
Filed under Healthcare.
Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Screenings; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules establishing certain practice parameters and protocols for early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for pediatric behavioral and mental health screenings; requiring health care providers to provide a parent or legal guardian information on sleep, screen time, and nutrition; requiring the Department of Health to develop and make such information available for download by health care providers, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDRequires the Agency for Health Care Administration to write rules governing how Medicaid managed care plans screen, diagnose, and treat behavioral and mental health issues in patients from birth through age 21.
Those rules must require validated, trauma-informed screening tools, let providers refer patients to mobile crisis teams and community mental health centers, and encourage parents to join parenting or mental health support programs.
Providers must also give parents state-created information on sleep, screen time, and nutrition, materials the Department of Health has to produce and make downloadable to providers.
Starting in 2027 the agency must track performance measures and outcome data, then report results to the Governor and legislative leaders every year beginning in 2028.
AIAHCA's rules must require Medicaid managed care plans, not just individual providers, to actually deliver early screening, diagnostic, and treatment services consistent with the new practice parameters.
AIThe rules must require validated, age-appropriate, trauma-informed diagnostic tools based on nationally recognized clinical guidelines for screening participants from birth through age 21.
AIThe rules must let a health care provider tap mobile response teams, community mental health centers, and behavioral health hubs for consultation, medication management support, and referrals.
AIThe practice parameters must encourage parents or guardians to participate in general parenting or specialized mental health education and support programs.
AIHealth care providers must give parents or guardians Department of Health-created information on sleep, screen time, and nutrition, and the department must produce that content and post it for download.
AIBy January 1, 2027, AHCA must adopt performance measures and outcome-data reporting requirements for these services, then report results to the Governor and legislative leaders every year starting in 2028.