{"id":2053,"date":"2024-12-23T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T16:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/?page_id=2053"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T18:13:36","slug":"1688-bh","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/1688-bh\/","title":{"rendered":"1688 Behavioral Health Crisis Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]With passage of the Engrossed 2nd Substitute House Bill \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov\/biennium\/2021-22\/Pdf\/Bills\/Session%20Laws\/House\/1688-S2.SL.pdf?q=20230309162951\">E2SHB 1688<\/a>\u00a0by the Washington state legislature in 2022, Commercial Carriers, along with Managed Medicaid Organizations (MCOs), will now provide insurance coverage for Behavioral Health Crisis Services as emergency services:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Mobile Crisis Response Services<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Crisis Facility Services<\/strong>; Hospital Emergency Room, Evaluation &amp; Treatment (E&amp;T), Crisis Stabilization, Crisis Triage and Withdrawal Management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The OIC and HCA pulled together a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2025\/01\/PD-Workgroup.pdf\">Multi-Stakeholder Workgroup<\/a>\u00a0to recommend how to build upon the current Behavioral Health Crisis System to implement the new law:[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Policy and Operational Recommendations&#8221; color=&#8221;info&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qualityhealth.org%2Fadminsimp%2F1688-bh%2Fpolicy%2F&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Covered Services &amp; Billing&#8221; color=&#8221;info&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qualityhealth.org%2Fadminsimp%2F1688-bh%2Fcovered-services-billing%2F&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_btn title=&#8221;Carriers, BH-ASOs, Agencies and Facilities&#8221; color=&#8221;info&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qualityhealth.org%2Fadminsimp%2F1688-bh%2Fcarriers-bh-asos%2F&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]With passage of the Engrossed 2nd Substitute House Bill \u2013\u00a0E2SHB 1688\u00a0by the Washington state legislature in 2022, Commercial Carriers, along with Managed Medicaid Organizations (MCOs), will now provide insurance coverage for Behavioral Health Crisis Services as emergency services: Mobile Crisis Response Services Crisis Facility Services; Hospital Emergency Room, Evaluation &amp; Treatment (E&amp;T), Crisis Stabilization,&#8230;","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2164,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/adminsimp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}