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State implements single assessment for youth levels of care and seeks funds for voluntary treatment, partial hospitalization and youth crisis services
Summary
Officials described the July 1, 2024 rollout of a single ‘1 assessment’ process for youth needing residential or inpatient behavioral-health care, and presented decision packages asking for funding for voluntary treatment for private-custody youth, partial-hospitalization programs, youth crisis residences and expanded trauma-focused therapy.
Dr. Shawna Eberhardt, clinical director for behavioral health policy, and Dr. Melissa Kynes, utilization-review administrator with Medical Services, briefed the Appropriations Committee on changes to how the state assesses and routes children and youth to higher levels of behavioral-health care.
One‑assessment rollout: Dr. Kynes said federal rules require independent review when Medicaid-eligible youth are admitted to inpatient psychiatric services and that North Dakota implemented a single, consolidated review process—called the "1 assessment"—effective July 1, 2024. The state contracts with an independent vendor (Maximus) to conduct clinical reviews, interview families and issue level-of-care determinations for psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTFs), qualified residential treatment programs (QRTPs) and treatment foster care (TFC).
Kynes told…
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