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IN HB1541
Bill
Status
4/26/2017
Primary Sponsor
Steven Davisson
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AI Summary
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Effective July 1, 2017, defines "addiction treatment team" as a group requiring at least an advanced practice nurse or physician assistant, a psychologist or licensed clinical addiction counselor, and a certified recovery coach that provides comprehensive addiction treatment with goal of patient abstinence or lowest appropriate maintenance dose
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Addiction treatment teams must provide addiction counseling, detoxification, and medication assisted treatment using FDA-approved long-acting nonaddictive medications for opioid or alcohol dependence
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Division shall reimburse addiction treatment teams from mental health and addiction forensic treatment services grants for entities approved by community corrections advisory boards, with reimbursement system designed to encourage team development and use
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Division may use private grants, gifts, and donations to provide additional incentive payments to addiction treatment teams serving high-risk areas with substance abuse epidemics
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Addiction treatment teams may provide services in mobile units or temporary locations in geographically high-risk areas, medically underserved areas, areas with high neonatal abstinence syndrome incidence, or areas with high forensic treatment needs
Legislative Description
Addiction treatment teams. Adds a definition of "medication assisted treatment". Specifies: (1) providers that must be included as part of; and (2) services that must be provided by; an addiction treatment team. Establishes reimbursement for addiction treatment teams from health and addiction forensic treatment services grants. Allows addiction treatment teams to provide services in temporary locations and mobile units in specified conditions.
Last Action
Public Law 203
4/26/2017