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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1651
serious mental illness; annual report
Purpose
Requires the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) to annually report
outlined information relating to individuals living with a serious mental illness.
Background
AHCCS must annually report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee on each fiscal
year's Medicaid and non-Medicaid behavioral health expenditures, including behavioral health
demographics that include: 1) client income; 2) utilization and expenditures; 3) medical necessity
oversight practices; 4) tracking of high-cost beneficiaries; 5) mortality trends; 6) placement trends;
7) program integrity; and 8) access to services (A.R.S. ยง 36-3405).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires AHCCCS to annually report outlined information relating to individuals living with
a serious mental illness, including.
a) annual mortality;
b) complaints received from individuals with serious mental illness or their representatives
regarding access to services by geographic service area and eligibility category; and
c) enrollment by geographic service area and eligibility category.
2. Requires the AHCCCS report to outline demographics by geographic service area and
eligibility category, including:
a) age;
b) gender;
c) race;
d) student status;
e) employment status;
f) percentage incarcerated in the preceding year; and
g) percentage who are homeless.
3. Requires the AHCCCS report to outline per capita expenditures by geographic service area
and eligibility category for:
a) the number receiving services;
b) per capita expenditures; and
c) the number receiving services and per capita costs per service category. FACT SHEET
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4. Requires the AHCCCS report to outline per capita expenditures by service type and eligibility
category for:
a) support services;
b) inpatient services;
c) pharmacy services;
d) rehabilitation services;
e) treatment services;
f) medical services; and
g) crisis intervention services.
5. Requires the AHCCCS report to outline the average length of stay and readmission rates by
eligibility category for various settings, including:
a) level I;
b) level I subacute; and
c) behavioral health residential facilities.
6. Requires the AHCCCS report, beginning with information from FY 2022 and annually
thereafter, to outline individuals living with serious mental illness enrolled in each regional
behavioral health authority by geographic service area and county, including:
a) the number of members who are on a waitlist for a type of housing, an analysis of where
each member resided while on the waitlist and the length of time that each member was on
the waitlist; and
b) the criteria and process that each regional behavioral health authority uses to assign a
member to the housing waitlist or to move a member up or down on the housing waitlist in
prioritizing housing placement.
7. Requires AHCCCS to annually report the data and information to the:
a) Joint Legislative Budget Committee; and
b) Chairpersons of the Health and Human Services Committees of the Senate and the House
of Representatives or their successor committees.
8. Requires the AHCCCS report to be in a substantially comparable format as the submitted
annual Department of Health Services (DHS) report in FY 2015.
9. Requires AHCCCS and DHS to enter into a data sharing agreement for the purposes of vital
records information necessary for the report.
10. Makes a conforming change.
11. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
February 14, 2022
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