Bill Text: HI HB541 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-07-02 - Act 154, on 07/01/2021 (Gov. Msg. No. 1256). [HB541 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2021-HB541-Amended.html
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THIRTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2021 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HEALTH.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the department of health's behavioral health administration is responsible for planning, coordinating, and promoting statewide access to integrated behavioral health services to reduce the biological, social, psychological, and economic consequences of substance use disorder, mental health disorders, and other behavioral health conditions.
The legislature further finds that fragmentation in the financing and payment ecosystem of behavioral health care payers of state funding perpetuates disparity in monitoring outcomes and results of services purchased by the State. Further, the siloed manner in which state-funded services are purchased in this area leads to increased administrative burdens on both providers and funders; disparity and inequity in reimbursement rates paid for similar services with state funds; difficulty in standardizing contracting, payment, evaluation processes, and quality assurance metrics; and duplication of effort at best, and waste of resources at worst.
As a result, patients receive uncoordinated care across a variety of services by public providers, contracted providers, and other private providers. The legislature further finds that consumers and patients of behavioral health services should have improved quality of behavioral health care through greater integration, lower fragmentation of payment models, and standard performance metrics.
The legislature also finds that Act 90, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, established the involuntary hospitalization task force, and Act 263, Session Laws of Hawaii 2019, established a working group to evaluate current behavioral health care and related systems, including existing resources, systems gaps, and identification of action steps that could be taken to improve the overall system of care. The findings of these efforts highlighted various gaps and identified action steps that could be taken by the State to improve the coordination of the overall system of care. Since then, the behavioral health administration has made strides in implementing the recommendations and closing service gaps, which is evident in the expansion of the coordinated access resource entry system (CARES) and the recent implementation of stabilization beds for sub-acute care. However, there is still much work to be done if the State is to realize the goal of a comprehensive coordinated system of care for behavioral health for services purchased by the State, as State resources should be used for services with optimal value and impact.
The legislature additionally finds that the legislature has the ability to promote greater coordination and enhance recent accomplishments through enacting legislation that requires more formalized coordination of purchasing services with state resources. Further, mandating such activities can facilitate multi-sectoral coordination of state resources, and given the current economic situation facing the State, it is in the State's best interests to do so. Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to:
(1) Establish the state payor committee, to be co-chaired by the directors of health and human services, or their designated representatives, to implement a unified framework for tracking, coordinating, and guiding the purchase of behavioral health or substance abuse services across the continuum of care that strives for integrated performance metrics, evaluation standards, and reimbursement rates;
(2) Require executive programs that purchase social services related to behavioral health or substance abuse to coordinate with the state payor committee as part of the planning for the purchase of these services and consider the recommendations and purchase of service framework developed by the state payor committee when purchasing these services; and
(3) Require all community or private organizations that purchase services for behavioral health or substance abuse, at the request of any state funding agency, to disclose the source of other federal, state, or county-level funding the organizations receive for the purposes of performing these services.
SECTION 2. Chapter 103F Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding two new sections to part IV to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§103F-A State payor committee. (a)
There is established the state payor committee,
which shall be composed of the administrator of the state procurement office or
the administrator's designee, the director of health or the director of health's
designee, and the director of human services or the director of human services'
designee.
(b) The director of health or the director of health's
designee and the director of human services or the director of human services' designee
shall serve as the administrative heads of the state payor committee.
(c) The committee shall have oversight of the coordination of the purchase of services and shall be responsible for monitoring all information gathered and creating a purchase of service framework that aligns all purchase of service contracts pursuant to section 103F-B.
§103F-B Behavioral health and substance abuse services.
(a) All executive state agencies or
programs that purchase social services related to behavioral health or substance
abuse shall coordinate with the state payor committee as part of their planning
activities for any purchase of services under this chapter. The agencies and programs shall consider the recommendations
and payor framework of performance metrics and evaluation standards developed by
the state payor committee when planning for the purchasing of these services with
state resources.
(b) All executive state agencies or programs that purchase
behavioral health or substance abuse services shall seek to align reimbursement
rates where applicable and in coordination with the state payor committee across
all contracts entered into for the purpose of purchasing behavioral health or substance
abuse services with state resources.
(c) All community or private organizations that purchase
services for behavioral health or substance abuse services, at the request of any
state funding agency, shall disclose the source of any other federal, state, or
county level funding the organizations receive for purposes of performing these
services.
(d) Beginning July 1, 2021, purchase of service contracts
for behavioral health or substance abuse services using state resources that are
initiated, renewed, or continued shall be reported to the state payor committee,
established pursuant to section 103F-A."
SECTION 3. In codifying the new sections added by section 2 of this Act, the revisor of statutes shall substitute appropriate section numbers for the letters used in designating the new sections in this Act.
SECTION 4. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2060.
Report Title:
Procurement; Service Contracts; Behavioral Health Services; Substance Abuse Services; DOH; DHS; SPO; State Payor Committee
Description:
Establishes the state payor committee, to be administered by the directors of the departments of health and human services, or their designees, to establish a purchase of service framework that aligns all behavioral health and substance abuse service contracts. Requires executive programs that purchase social services related to behavioral health or substance abuse to coordinate with the state payor committee as part of the planning for purchases of these services. Requires all community or private organizations that purchase services for behavioral health or substance abuse, at the request of any state funding agency, to disclose the source of other federal, state, or county-level funding it receives for the purposes of performing such services. Effective 7/1/2060. (HD1)
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