Bill Text: IN HB1414 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Medicaid coverage of mental health services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - First reading: referred to Committee on Public Health [HB1414 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2011-HB1414-Introduced.html


Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1414

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 12-7-2-122.7; 3IC 12-15-5.

Synopsis: Medicaid coverage of mental health services. Requires partial hospitalization and outpatient mental health services to be covered under Medicaid, and specifies that reimbursement to licensed clinical addiction counselors for these services must be at a rate consistent with the rate of reimbursement paid to similarly educated professionals providing the same service. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the commission on mental health.)

Effective: July 1, 2011.





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    January 18, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.







Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1414



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning human services.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 12-7-2-122.7; (11)IN1414.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 12-7-2-122.7 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 122.7. "Licensed clinical addiction counselor", for purposes of IC 12-15-5, has the meaning set forth in IC 12-15-5-11.
SOURCE: IC 12-15-5-1; (11)IN1414.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 12-15-5-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 1. Except as provided in IC 12-15-2-12, IC 12-15-6, and IC 12-15-21, the following services and supplies are provided under Medicaid:
        (1) Inpatient hospital services.
        (2) Nursing facility services.
        (3) Physician's services, including services provided under IC 25-10-1 and IC 25-22.5-1.
        (4) Outpatient hospital or clinic services.
        (5) Home health care services.
        (6) Private duty nursing services.
        (7) Physical therapy and related services.
        (8) Dental services.
        (9) Prescribed laboratory and x-ray services.
        (10) Prescribed drugs and services.
        (11) Eyeglasses and prosthetic devices.
        (12) Optometric services.
        (13) Diagnostic, screening, preventive, and rehabilitative services.
        (14) Podiatric medicine services.
        (15) Hospice services.
        (16) Services or supplies recognized under Indiana law and specified under rules adopted by the office.
        (17) Family planning services except the performance of abortions.
        (18) Nonmedical nursing care given in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination to an individual qualified for Medicaid who depends upon healing by prayer and spiritual means alone in accordance with the tenets and practices of the individual's church or religious denomination.
        (19) Services provided to individuals described in IC 12-15-2-8 and IC 12-15-2-9.
        (20) Services provided under IC 12-15-34 and IC 12-15-32.
        (21) Case management services provided to individuals described in IC 12-15-2-11 and IC 12-15-2-13.
        (22) Any other type of remedial care recognized under Indiana law and specified by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
        (23) Examinations required under IC 16-41-17-2(a)(10).
         (24) Partial hospitalization or outpatient mental health services.
SOURCE: IC 12-15-5-11; (11)IN1414.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 12-15-5-11 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 11. (a) As used in this section, "licensed clinical addiction counselor" means an individual who is licensed as a clinical addiction counselor under IC 25-23.6-10.5.
    (b) As used in this chapter, "partial hospitalization or outpatient health services" includes the following:
        (1) Individual outpatient psychotherapy.
        (2) Group outpatient psychotherapy.
        (3) Family outpatient psychotherapy.
    (c) The office shall reimburse a licensed clinical addiction counselor that provides partial hospitalization or outpatient health services at a rate for the service that is consistent with the rate paid to other similarly educated and trained professionals for the same

service.

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