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State hospitals' accreditation, civil-commitment costs and competency restorations spotlighted at JFAC
Summary
Committee heard that all three state hospitals are accredited, which allows Medicaid billing, but psychiatric hospitalization budgets include a supplemental for civil-commitment costs now borne by the state and a growing share of beds used for restoration-to-competency cases.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee reviewed the psychiatric hospitalization budget for State Hospital North (Orofino), State Hospital South (Blackfoot) and State Hospital West (Nampa), receiving updates on accreditation, Medicaid billing, civil-commitment costs and trends in restoration-to-competency commitments.
Accreditation and Medicaid billing
Director Alex Adams told the committee all three hospitals are now accredited. He said accreditation allows hospitals to bill Medicaid for eligible patients, producing receipts that reduce general-fund burdens. "State Hospital West . . . has so far billed $1,600,000 and they've received $1,300,000," Adams said, noting that those Medicaid receipts offset what otherwise would have been general-fund requests.
Civil commitments and supplemental request
Analysts described a fiscal-year-2025 one-time supplemental request of $2,600,000…
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