Introduced Version
HOUSE BILL No. 1216
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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL
Citations Affected: IC 12-15-5-13.5; IC 12-26-5-1.
Synopsis: Medical services for certain detainees. Requires Medicaid
reimbursement for services required to be covered by the office of the
secretary of family and social services provided to an eligible
individual while the individual is involuntarily committed to a facility
for mental health services. Amends the requirements for an application
for detention.
Effective: Upon passage.
Steuerwald, McNamara, Jeter,
Moseley
January 9, 2024, read first time and referred to Committee on Public Health.
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Second Regular Session of the 123rd General Assembly (2024)
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HOUSE BILL No. 1216
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:
1 SECTION 1. IC 12-15-5-13.5, AS ADDED BY P.L.205-2023,
2 SECTION 4, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
3 UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 13.5. (a) As used in this section, "office"
4 includes the following:
5 (1) The office of the secretary of family and social services.
6 (2) A managed care organization that has contracted with the
7 office of Medicaid policy and planning under IC 12-15.
8 (3) A person that has contracted with a managed care
9 organization described in subdivision (2).
10 (b) Services provided to an individual while detained under
11 IC 12-26-5 are medically necessary when provided in accordance with
12 generally accepted clinical care guidelines.
13 (b) (c) The office of the secretary shall require managed care
14 organizations to consider services provided to an individual while
15 detained under IC 12-26-5 as medically necessary when provided in
16 accordance with generally accepted clinical care guidelines.
17 (d) The office shall reimburse for services required to be
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1 covered by the office of the secretary provided to an eligible
2 individual while detained under IC 12-26-5, regardless of medical
3 necessity criteria, for a period not to exceed fourteen (14) days,
4 excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, or the date of a
5 final hearing under IC 12-26-5-11, whichever occurs first.
6 (e) The office shall reimburse for services required to be
7 covered by the office of the secretary provided to an eligible
8 individual in accordance with a mental health or substance use
9 disorder treatment plan while the individual is detained pursuant
10 to a final order issued under IC 12-26-5-11, subject to medical
11 necessity criteria according to clinical care guidelines established
12 and published by the office of the secretary.
13 SECTION 2. IC 12-26-5-1, AS AMENDED BY P.L.205-2023,
14 SECTION 10, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE
15 UPON PASSAGE]: Sec. 1. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this
16 chapter, an individual may be detained in a facility for not more than
17 seventy-two (72) hours under this chapter, excluding Saturdays,
18 Sundays, and legal holidays, if a written application for detention is
19 filed with a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with this
20 section.
21 (b) An individual may be detained in a facility for not more than
22 forty-eight (48) hours from the time of admission, excluding Saturdays,
23 Sundays, and legal holidays, unless the facility files an application for
24 detention, on a form prepared by the office of judicial administration,
25 with a court of competent jurisdiction within the forty-eight (48) hour
26 period. If the facility timely files an application for detention, the
27 individual may be detained for not more than seventy-two (72) hours
28 from the time of admission, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal
29 holidays, unless the court approves the application for detention. If the
30 court approves the application for detention, the individual may be held
31 for not more than fourteen (14) days, from the time of admission,
32 excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays, pending a final
33 hearing under section 11 of this chapter. If a patient is admitted to a
34 facility after midnight and before 8:00 a.m., the time periods described
35 in this subsection begin to run at 8:00 a.m.
36 (c) An application for detention under subsection (b) must contain
37 an attestation signed by a physician that the individual has been
38 examined by a physician, an advanced practice registered nurse, or a
39 physician assistant, and that based on this examination, or based on
40 other information provided to the physician, advanced practice
41 registered nurse, or physician assistant, the applicant believes that there
42 is probable cause to believe that:
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1 (1) the individual is mentally ill and either dangerous or gravely
2 disabled; and
3 (2) the individual requires continuing involuntary detention to
4 receive care and treatment;
5 based on an examination by a physician, advanced practice
6 registered nurse, or physician assistant, or information given to a
7 physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician
8 assistant.
9 (d) A facility may not be required to first seek transfer of the
10 individual to a psychiatric hospital before commencing an application
11 for detention.
12 (e) A facility may commence an application for detention even if an
13 individual was not apprehended and transported to a facility under
14 section 0.5 of this chapter.
15 SECTION 3. An emergency is declared for this act.
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