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Committee hears state hospital budget updates; accreditation completed, civil-commitment costs prompt supplemental request
Summary
Analysts and the Department of Health and Welfare briefed the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee on state psychiatric hospital budgets, noting completed accreditations that enable Medicaid billing and rising civil-commitment expenditures that have prompted a $2.6 million supplemental request for FY2025.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee was briefed on the Division of Psychiatric Hospitalization budget, including accreditation progress at the three state hospitals, Medicaid billing impacts and rising civil-commitment expenditures tied to statutory changes enacted in 2022.
Alex Williamson, budget and policy analyst with the Legislative Services Office, told the committee psychiatric hospitalization is organized into community hospitalization and three state hospitals: State Hospital South (Blackfoot), State Hospital North (Orofino) and State Hospital West (Nampa). The division is authorized 467 FTP, allocated among the hospitals. Williamson reported total expenditures of roughly $62.6 million in fiscal year 2024 and described one-time and ongoing enhancement requests in the FY2026 submission.
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