HOUSE BILL 108

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Patricia A. Lundstrom

AN ACT

RELATING TO PUBLIC HEALTH; AMENDING A SECTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CREATION AND RANKING OF INVESTMENT ZONES STATEWIDE FOR THE PRIORITIZATION OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 9-7-6.4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2004, Chapter 46, Section 8, as amended) is amended to read:

     "9-7-6.4. INTERAGENCY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PURCHASING COLLABORATIVE.--

          A. There is created the "interagency behavioral health purchasing collaborative", consisting of the secretaries of aging and long-term services; Indian affairs; human services; health; corrections; children, youth and families; finance and administration; workforce solutions; public education; and transportation; the directors of the administrative office of the courts; the New Mexico mortgage finance authority; the governor's commission on disability; the developmental disabilities planning council; the instructional support and vocational [rehabilitation] education division of the public education department; and the New Mexico health policy commission; and the governor's health policy coordinator, or their designees. The collaborative shall be chaired by the secretary of human services with the respective secretaries of health and children, youth and families alternating annually as co-chairs. The collaborative shall meet regularly and at the call of either co-chair.

          B. The collaborative shall [meet regularly and at the call of either co-chair and shall:

                (1) identify behavioral health needs statewide, with an emphasis on that hiatus between needs and services set forth in the department of health's gap analysis and in ongoing needs assessments, and develop a master plan for statewide delivery of services;

                (2) give special attention to regional differences, including cultural, rural, frontier, urban and border issues;

                (3) inventory all expenditures for behavioral health, including mental health and substance abuse;

                (4) plan, design and direct a statewide behavioral health system, ensuring both availability of services and efficient use of all behavioral health funding, taking into consideration funding appropriated to specific affected departments; and

                (5) contract for operation of one or more behavioral health entities to ensure availability of services throughout the state.

          C. The plan for delivery of behavioral health services shall] create a master plan for the delivery of behavioral health services statewide, pursuant to which the collaborative shall divide the state into geographically designated investment zones. The secretary of health shall provide to the collaborative epidemiological data and other source data that identify the combined incidence of mortality related to alcohol use, drug overdose and suicide in each investment zone. Using these combined incidence data, the collaborative shall assign a "tier three" ranking to those investment zones with the highest incidence and a "tier one" ranking to those investment zones with the lowest incidence. The collaborative shall:

                (1) establish a funding formula according to which tier three investment zones are assigned the highest priority for the funding of behavioral health services, tier two investment zones are assigned a lower priority and tier one investment zones are assigned the lowest priority;

                (2) ensure the delivery of only those behavioral health services that are evidence-based services;

                (3) direct the allocation of general fund appropriations for the delivery of behavioral health services in an investment zone only if a local government matches at least twenty-five percent of the cost of the behavioral health services;

                (4) establish a limit on local government contributions to effect a distribution of behavioral health services that prioritizes allocation according to tier ranking while ensuring statewide delivery of behavioral health services;

                (5) contract for the operation of one or more behavioral health entities to ensure availability of services throughout the state;

                (6) inventory all expenditures for behavioral health services, including mental health and substance use disorder treatment services;

                (7) ensure that behavioral health service delivery accords special attention to regional differences, including characteristics related to each region's culture and language as well as geographic situation in a rural, frontier, urban or border area;

                (8) report annually to the legislature:

                     (a) the status of master plan implementation, including the collaborative's progress toward achieving its strategic goals;

                     (b) the collaborative's progress in addressing the behavioral health needs in investment zones according to tier ranking;

                     (c) information relating to the performance of persons that provide services to the collaborative by contract, including but not limited to the performance of the behavioral health entities with which the collaborative contracts pursuant to Paragraph (5) of this subsection;

                     (d) the following information relating to services and program operations: 1) the number of individuals served; 2) the most frequently treated diagnoses; and 3) expenditures by type of service and other aggregate claims data;

                     (e) general fund and local government funding allocated for the delivery of behavioral health services to each investment zone;

                     (f) the specific evidence-based behavioral health services delivered in the targeted investment zones; and

                     (g) data comparing clinical outcomes for evidence-based behavioral services in the investment zones before and after implementation of the investment zones targeting program; and

                (9) include in the master plan specific service plans to address the needs of infants, children, adolescents, adults and seniors, as well as to address work force development and retention and quality improvement issues.

          C. The collaborative shall revise the plan [shall be revised] every two years [and shall be adopted by]. The department of health shall adopt the master plan as part of the statewide health plan.

          D. The master plan shall take the following principles into consideration, to the extent practicable and within available resources:

                (1) services should be individually centered and family-focused based on principles of individual capacity for recovery and resiliency;

                (2) services should be delivered in a culturally responsive manner in a home- or community-based setting, where possible;

                (3) services should be delivered in the least restrictive and most appropriate manner;

                (4) individualized service planning and case management should take into consideration individual and family circumstances, abilities and strengths and be accomplished in consultation with appropriate family members, caregivers and other persons critical to the individual's life and well-being;

                (5) services should be coordinated, accessible, accountable and of high quality;

                (6) services should be directed by the individual or family served to the extent possible;

                (7) services may be consumer- or family- provided, as defined by the collaborative; and

                (8) services should include behavioral health promotion, prevention, early intervention, treatment and community support [and

                (9) services should consider regional differences, including cultural, rural, frontier, urban and border issues].

          E. The collaborative shall seek and consider suggestions of Native American representatives from Indian nations, tribes and pueblos and the urban Indian population, located wholly or partially within New Mexico, in the development of the master plan for delivery of behavioral health services.

          F. Pursuant to the State Rules Act, the collaborative shall adopt rules through the human services department for:

                (1) standards of delivery for behavioral health services provided through contracted behavioral health entities, including:

                     (a) quality management and improvement;

                     (b) performance measures;

                     (c) accessibility and availability of services;

                     (d) utilization management;

                     (e) credentialing of providers;

                     (f) rights and responsibilities of consumers and providers;

                     (g) clinical evaluation and treatment and supporting documentation; and

                     (h) confidentiality of consumer records; and

                (2) approval of contracts and contract amendments by the collaborative, including public notice of the proposed final contract.

          G. The collaborative shall, through the human services department, submit a separately identifiable consolidated behavioral health budget request. The consolidated behavioral health budget request shall account for requested funding for the behavioral health services program at the human services department and any other requested funding for behavioral health services from agencies identified in Subsection A of this section that will be used pursuant to Paragraph (5) of Subsection B of this section. Any contract proposed, negotiated or entered into by the collaborative is subject to the provisions of the Procurement Code.

          H. The collaborative shall, with the consent of the governor, appoint a "director of the collaborative". The director is responsible for the coordination of day-to-day activities of the collaborative, including the coordination of staff from the collaborative member agencies.

          I. The collaborative shall provide a quarterly report to the legislative finance committee on performance outcome measures. [The collaborative shall submit an annual report to the legislative finance committee and the interim legislative health and human services committee that provides information on:

                (1) the collaborative's progress toward achieving its strategic plans and goals;

                (2) the collaborative's performance information, including contractors and providers; and

                (3) the number of people receiving services, the most frequently treated diagnoses, expenditures by type of service and other aggregate claims data relating to services rendered and program operations.]

          J. As used in this section:

                (1) "class A county" means a county having a final, full assessed valuation of over seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) and having a population of one hundred thousand persons or more as determined by the most current annual population data or estimate available from the United States census bureau;

                (2) "investment zone" means an area that is under county police power jurisdiction:

                     (a) that is contiguous with the boundaries of a county that is not a class A county; or

                     (b) for which the secretary of health designates the boundaries, if located within a class A county; and

                (3) "local government" means the governing body of a county, an incorporated municipality or an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo."

     SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--One million dollars ($1,000,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the department of health for expenditure in fiscal year 2016 to fund the creation and prioritization of investment zones statewide pursuant to Section 1 of this act for behavioral health service delivery through the interagency behavioral health purchasing collaborative. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2016 shall revert to the general fund.

     SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.--The effective date of the provisions of this act is July 1, 2015.

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