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Panel Hears Bill to Shift PAL Administrator Costs Into Assessments, Saving State Funds
Summary
House Appropriations Committee reviewed HB 22-54, an agency-request bill to allow reasonable third-party administrator costs for Partnership Access Line (PAL) programs to be included in carrier assessments, moving $282,000 in admin costs off the general fund and projecting a four-year general fund savings of $747,000.
Committee staff and stakeholders described HB 22-54 on Jan. 30 as a technical, agency-request adjustment to the Partnership Access Line (PAL) funding model that would let the program include reasonable third-party administrator costs in the carrier assessment that funds telebehavioral health services.
Megan Morris, staff to the committee, explained that Seattle Children’s Hospital (in affiliation with the University of Washington) operates PAL programs—telephone-based psychiatry consultation and related services—under contract with the Health…
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