FL S1652

Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish specific network requirements for each type of behavioral health provider in Medicaid, including community-based and residential providers, with provider-specific data on access timeliness.

Mandates systematic and continuous testing of managed care plan provider networks to confirm behavioral health providers are accepting enrollees and enrollees have timely access to services.

Requires managed care plans to collect and report Adult Core Set behavioral health measures beginning with 2025 calendar year data reports and stratify reported measures by age, sex, race, ethnicity, primary language, and disability status beginning with 2026 data reports.

Requires the agency to establish outcome performance measures to reduce crisis stabilization services for children and adolescents who are high users, with plan-specific year-over-year improvement targets to reduce repeated use.

Requires the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit annual reports to the Legislature beginning October 1, 2023, containing demographic and geographic information, plan-specific performance data, network testing data, and analysis of managed care plan contract enforcement mechanisms.