Title 36 — Public Health and Safety

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administration" means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration. 2. "Advisory council" means the Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill. 3. "Children" means persons who are unde…

1. Employ professional, secretarial and clerical staff as are determined necessary by the director to carry out the functions and duties of the administration, subject to legislative appropriation. 2. Contract for the services of consultants and other persons that are reasonably …

A. The administration shall present a budget request that includes all information on the potential availability of other monies, including federal monies, that may be used in the following fiscal year to fund behavioral health services other than with respect to the operation of…

A. On or before January 1 of each year, the director shall submit a financial and programmatic report for the preceding fiscal year to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate. B. The report required pursuant to subsection A of thi…

A. The Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill is established. B. The advisory council shall consist of the director or the director's designee and the following nine members appointed by the governor: 1. One member representing an advocacy group for the seri…

The administration shall contract for the provision of the following services relating to the seriously mentally ill: 1. Community education to increase public awareness of the needs of persons experiencing behavioral health problems. 2. Coordinated screening and intake. 3. A coo…

A. Any person or the person's parent or legal guardian who requests behavioral health services pursuant to this chapter shall comply with a preliminary financial screening and eligibility process developed by the Arizona health care cost containment system administration and admi…

A. Clients who are eligible for nontitle XIX services from the administration shall be required to pay fees for services. B. The administration shall establish a schedule for fees charged for services provided by public or private agencies receiving state monies pursuant to this …

A. If the administration contracts with behavioral health contractors that would act as regional behavioral health authorities or directly with a service provider for behavioral health services, the administration and each behavioral health contractor or service provider shall pr…

A. The administration shall ensure that behavioral health service providers are reimbursed within ninety days after the service provider submits a clean claim to a regional behavioral health authority. B. Any contract issued by or on behalf of the administration for the provision…

A. The director shall prepare and issue a request for proposals for behavioral health services consistent with sections 36-2906 and 36-2906.01. B. Consistent with section 36-2903, subsection M, the administration's contracts with regional behavioral health authorities shall inclu…

A. The administration shall require all regional behavioral health authorities to establish and implement a grievance and appeal process for use by service providers and by individuals receiving and requesting services. The administration shall stipulate any required elements of …

A. The administration shall report annually to the joint legislative budget committee on each fiscal year's medicaid and nonmedicaid behavioral health expenditures, including behavioral health demographics that include client income, utilization and expenditures, medical necessit…

A. The administration may contract for art therapy services, directly or through a contractor, only with an art therapist who holds an active national board certification in art therapy from the art therapy credentials board or who is a master's level graduate in art therapy unde…

A. The administration shall develop and implement a comprehensive behavioral health service system for children that includes the following: 1. Annual needs assessment and resource assessment studies. 2. Annual planning to develop policy issues, programs and services. 3. Communit…

The administration shall develop a plan for each fiscal year identifying the services, the estimated number of clients and an appropriations request for the purposes of systematic development and implementation of the comprehensive behavioral health service system for children. T…

A. The administration shall annually include in its budget request a separate appropriations request for the comprehensive behavioral health service system for children. The request shall be based on the annual plan and assessment. All behavioral health services provided for chil…

Nothing in this article relieves the state department of corrections, the department of economic security, the department of child safety, the department of education, the Arizona health care cost containment system, the department of health services or the Arizona supreme court …

A. Pursuant to section 11-952, the administration, the department of child safety, the state department of corrections, the department of education and the supreme court shall enter into an intergovernmental agreement to develop a coordinated multiagency assessment of needs and r…

B. Monies in the fund: 1. Are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations. 2. Are continuously appropriated. C. The administration shall enter into an agreement with one or more contractors for children's behavioral health services using mon…

1. A process to allow a parent to annually opt into the school-based referrals. 2. A process to conduct a survey of parents whose children were referred to and received behavioral health services pursuant to this section. The survey may be completed online. The survey shall inclu…