SB 464 Summary

• Establishes methadone coverage limits for state employee health plans, Medicaid, accident and sickness insurance, and health maintenance organizations, allowing coverage up to 60 milligrams daily without prior authorization, but requiring prior authorization and medical necessity determination for higher doses when prescribed for pain management.

• Authorizes addiction treatment services including counseling, detoxification, case management, daily living skills, and medication-assisted treatment (including FDA-approved long-acting, nonaddictive medications for opioid or alcohol dependence) as conditions of parole, probation, community corrections, pretrial diversion, and problem-solving courts.

• Creates a new mental health and addiction forensic treatment services program providing grants and vouchers to individuals in the criminal justice system with household incomes not exceeding 200% of federal poverty level, administered by the division of mental health and addiction.

• Allows up to five additional opioid treatment programs to be approved by June 30, 2018, if operated by licensed hospitals, institutions, or certified community mental health centers and if a need is demonstrated in the proposed location.

• Requires the Department of Correction to estimate operational cost savings from sentencing changes and permits reallocation of up to $11 million in savings to community corrections programs and court probation services.