CHAPTER 135-F SYSTEM OF CARE FOR CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH
Section 135-F:4
135-F:4 Duties of Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services. –
The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall:
I. To the extent possible within existing statutory and budgetary constraints, modify the policies and practices of the department of health and human services to establish a system of care; and
II. Develop a plan for full establishment and maintenance of a system of care. Such plan shall be reviewed and amended annually. It shall include sufficient detail to allow compliance with the reporting requirements of RSA 126-A:5, XXXIII, and shall address at least the following elements:
(a) System capacity, including workforce sufficiency.
(b) Federal funding participation, including but not limited to Medicaid waivers and plan amendments.
(c) Changes to statutes, administrative rules, and structure of appropriations, and department policy, practice, and structure.
(d) Projections of cost savings from increased service effectiveness and reductions in costly forms of care and use of such savings to close existing gaps in children's behavioral health services.
(e) Recommended modifications to law, practice, and policy to prepare for and accommodate the participation of privately funded service providers in the system of care.
(f) Coordination with the plans and activities of the commissioner of the department of education to implement the system of care.
III. Establish and maintain at least one care management entity to oversee and coordinate the care for children with complex behavioral health needs who are at risk for residential, hospital, or corrections placement or involved in multiple service systems. In this section, "care management entity" means an organizational entity that serves as a centralized entity to coordinate all care for youth with complex behavioral health challenges who are involved in multiple systems and their families.
(a) The care management entity shall oversee and manage residential treatment, psychiatric hospitalization, and the development of a continuum of community-based services and supports for children and youth with more complex needs.
(b) Beginning January 1, 2020, the care management entity shall coordinate behavioral health services in no less than 25 percent of cases involving referrals for residential treatment. Beginning January 1, 2021, the care management entity shall coordinate services in no less than 50 percent of such cases, and, beginning January 1, 2022 and thereafter, the care management entity shall coordinate services in no less than 75 percent of such cases.
Source. 2016, 203:2, eff. June 6, 2016. 2019, 44:3, eff. Aug. 2, 2019; 346:331, eff. July 1, 2019. 2021, 91:397, eff. July 1, 2021.