§ 71.24.011 Short title
§ 71.24.015 Legislative intent — Community behavioral health system
§ 71.24.016 Intent — Management of services — Work group on long-term involuntary inpatient care integration
§ 71.24.025 Definitions
§ 71.24.030 Grants, purchasing of services, for community behavioral health programs
§ 71.24.035 Director’s powers and duties as state behavioral health authority
§ 71.24.037 Licensed or certified behavioral health agencies — Minimum standards — Investigations and enforcement actions — Inspections
§ 71.24.045 Behavioral health administrative services organization powers and duties
§ 71.24.061 Children’s mental health provider networks — Children’s mental health evidence-based practice institute — Partnership access line pilot programs — Report to legislature
§ 71.24.062 Psychiatry consultation line — Implementation
§ 71.24.063 Partnership access lines — Psychiatric consultation lines — Data collection
§ 71.24.064 Partnership access lines — Psychiatric consultation lines — Funding — Performance measures
§ 71.24.066 Partnership access line pilot programs — Determination to be made permanent — Long-term funding
§ 71.24.067 Partnership access lines — Psychiatric consultation lines — Review
§ 71.24.068 Telebehavioral health access account
§ 71.24.100 County-run behavioral health administrative services organizations — Joint operating agreements — Requirements
§ 71.24.112 Health engagement hubs pilot program
§ 71.24.113 Grant program — Employment and education opportunities for persons recovering from a substance use disorder
§ 71.24.115 Recovery navigator programs
§ 71.24.125 Grant program — Treatment services — Regional access standards
§ 71.24.135 Expanded recovery support services program — Regional expanded recovery plans
§ 71.24.145 Homeless outreach stabilization transition program — Psychiatric outreach — Contingency management resources — Substance misuse prevention effort — Grants
§ 71.24.155 Grants to behavioral health administrative services, managed care organizations, and Indian health care providers — Accounting
§ 71.24.160 Proof as to uses made of state funds — Use of maintenance of effort funds
§ 71.24.200 Expenditures of county funds subject to county fiscal laws
§ 71.24.215 Sliding-scale fee schedules for clients receiving behavioral health services
§ 71.24.220 State grants may be withheld for noncompliance with chapter or related rules
§ 71.24.240 Eligibility for funding — Community behavioral health program plans to be approved by director prior to submittal to federal agency
§ 71.24.250 Behavioral health administrative services organizations — Receipt of gifts and grants
§ 71.24.260 Waiver of postgraduate educational requirements — Mental health professionals
§ 71.24.300 Behavioral health administrative services organizations — Advisory boards — Inclusion of tribes — Roles and responsibilities
§ 71.24.335 Reimbursement for behavioral health services provided through telemedicine or store and forward technology — Coverage requirements — Audio-only telemedicine
§ 71.24.370 Behavioral health services contracts — Limitation on state liability
§ 71.24.380 Purchase of behavioral health services — Contracting — Requirements
§ 71.24.381 Contracting for crisis services and medically necessary physical and behavioral health services
§ 71.24.383 Managed care organization contracting — Requirements
§ 71.24.385 Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations — Mental health and substance use disorder treatment programs — Development and design requirements
§ 71.24.400 Streamlining delivery system — Finding
§ 71.24.405 Streamlining delivery system
§ 71.24.415 Streamlining delivery system — Authority duties to achieve outcomes
§ 71.24.420 Expenditure of funds for operation of service delivery system — Appropriation levels — Outcome and performance measures — Report
§ 71.24.430 Coordination of services for behavioral health clients — Collaborative service delivery
§ 71.24.435 Behavioral health system — Improvement strategy
§ 71.24.450 Offenders with mental illnesses — Findings and intent
§ 71.24.455 Offenders with mental illnesses — Contracts for specialized access and services
§ 71.24.460 Offenders with mental illnesses — Report to legislature
§ 71.24.470 Reentry community services program — Contract for case management — Use of appropriated funds
§ 71.24.480 Reentry community services program — Limitation on liability due to treatment — Reporting requirements
§ 71.24.490 Evaluation and treatment services — Capacity needs — Behavioral health administrative services and managed care organizations
§ 71.24.500 Written guidance and trainings — Managed care — Incarcerated and involuntarily hospitalized persons
§ 71.24.510 Integrated comprehensive screening and assessment process — Implementation
§ 71.24.520 Substance use disorder program authority
§ 71.24.522 Substance use disorder — Training for parents of adolescents and transition age youth
§ 71.24.525 Agreements authorized under the interlocal cooperation act
§ 71.24.530 Local funding and donative funding requirements — Facilities, plans, programs
§ 71.24.535 Duties of authority
§ 71.24.540 Drug courts
§ 71.24.545 Comprehensive program for treatment — Regional facilities
§ 71.24.546 Substance use recovery services plan — Substance use recovery services advisory committee — Rules — Report
§ 71.24.550 City, town, or county without facility — Contribution of liquor taxes prerequisite to use of another’s facility
§ 71.24.555 Liquor taxes and profits — City and county eligibility conditioned
§ 71.24.560 Opioid treatment programs — Pregnant individuals — Information and education
§ 71.24.565 Acceptance for approved treatment — Rules
§ 71.24.570 Emergency service patrol — Establishment — Rules
§ 71.24.575 Criminal laws limitations
§ 71.24.580 Criminal justice treatment account
§ 71.24.585 Opioid and substance use disorder treatment — State response
§ 71.24.587 Opioid use disorder treatment — Possession or use of lawfully prescribed medication — Declaration by state
§ 71.24.589 Law enforcement assisted diversion — Grant program
§ 71.24.590 Opioid treatment — Program licensing or certification by department, department duties — Use of medications by program — Definition
§ 71.24.593 Opioid use disorder treatment — Care of individuals and their newborns — Authority recommendations required
§ 71.24.594 Opioid overdose reversal medications — Education — Distribution — Labeling — Liability
§ 71.24.595 Statewide treatment and operating standards for opioid treatment programs — Evaluation and report
§ 71.24.597 Opioid overdose reversal medication — Coordinated purchasing and distribution
§ 71.24.598 Drug overdose response team
§ 71.24.599 Opioid use disorder — City and county jails — Funding
§ 71.24.600 Inability to contribute to cost of services no bar to admission — Authority may limit admissions for nonmedicaid clients
§ 71.24.605 Fetal alcohol screening and assessment services
§ 71.24.610 Interagency agreement on prenatal substance exposure programs
§ 71.24.612 Prenatal substance exposure — Recommendations
§ 71.24.614 Prenatal substance exposure — Contracting
§ 71.24.615 Chemical dependency treatment expenditures — Prioritization
§ 71.24.618 Withdrawal management services — Substance use disorder treatment services — Prior authorization — Utilization review — Medical necessity review
§ 71.24.625 Uniform application of chapter — Training for designated crisis responders
§ 71.24.630 Integrated, comprehensive screening and assessment process for substance use and mental disorders
§ 71.24.640 Standards for certification or licensure of evaluation and treatment facilities
§ 71.24.645 Standards for certification or licensure of crisis stabilization units
§ 71.24.648 Standards for certification or licensure of intensive behavioral health treatment facilities
§ 71.24.649 Standards for certification or licensure of mental health peer-run respite centers
§ 71.24.650 Standards for certification or licensure of a clubhouse
§ 71.24.657 Recovery residences — Funding — Voucher program — Outreach — Training
§ 71.24.660 Recovery residences — Referrals by licensed or certified service providers
§ 71.24.665 Psychiatric treatment, evaluation, and bed utilization for American Indians and Alaska Natives — Report by authority
§ 71.24.670 Substance use disorder treatment facilities and entities — Record sharing
§ 71.24.700 Long-term inpatient care and mental health placements — Contracting with community hospitals and evaluation and treatment facilities
§ 71.24.710 Reentry services — Work group
§ 71.24.715 Reentry services — Waiver application
§ 71.24.720 Less restrictive alternative treatment — Transition teams
§ 71.24.845 Transfer of clients between behavioral health administrative services organizations — Uniform transfer agreement
§ 71.24.850 Regional service areas — Report — Managed care integration
§ 71.24.852 Intensive behavioral health treatment facilities — Resident rights and access to ombuds services — Recommendations to governor and legislature
§ 71.24.855 Finding — Intent — State hospitals
§ 71.24.861 Behavioral health system coordination committee
§ 71.24.870 Behavioral health services — Adoption of rules — Audit
§ 71.24.872 Regulatory parity between primary care and behavioral health care settings — Initial documentation requirements for patients — Administrative burdensomeness
§ 71.24.880 Interlocal leadership structure — Transition to fully integrated managed care within a regional service area
§ 71.24.885 Medicaid rate increases — Review authority — Reporting
§ 71.24.887 Training support grants for community mental health providers — Behavioral health workforce pilot program
§ 71.24.890 National 988 system — Designated 988 contact hubs — Technology and platform development — Agency collaboration
§ 71.24.892 National 988 system — Crisis response improvement strategy committee — Membership — Steering committee — Reports
§ 71.24.894 National 988 system — Department reporting — Audit
§ 71.24.896 National 988 system — Duties owed to public — Independent contractors
§ 71.24.898 National 988 system — Technical and operational plan
§ 71.24.899 National 988 system — Informational materials — Social media campaign
§ 71.24.903 Mobile rapid response crisis team endorsement
§ 71.24.905 Co-response services
§ 71.24.906 National 988 system — Needs assessment — Recommendations — Report
§ 71.24.907 National 988 system — Limitation of liability
§ 71.24.908 Data integration platform to support diversion efforts — Development and implementation — Exempt from public disclosure
§ 71.24.909 Washington state institute for public policy study on recovery navigator programs and law enforcement assisted diversion programs
§ 71.24.910 Balance billing violations — Discipline
§ 71.24.911 Statewide behavioral health treatment and recovery support services mapping tool
§ 71.24.912 Work group — Systems, policies, and processes related to intake, screening, and assessment for substance use disorders
§ 71.24.913 Substance use disorders — Comprehensive assessments, reports
§ 71.24.915 Crisis continuum of care forum
§ 71.24.916 23-hour crisis relief centers — Licensing and certification — Rules — Standards
§ 71.24.920 Certified peer specialists — Courses of instruction — Duties
§ 71.24.922 Certified peer specialists — Supervision caseload reduction
§ 71.24.924 Certified peer specialists — Billing
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Terms Used In Washington Code > Chapter 71.24 - Community behavioral health services act

  • Acutely mentally ill: means a condition which is limited to a short-term severe crisis episode of:
Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Alcoholism: means a disease, characterized by a dependency on alcoholic beverages, loss of control over the amount and circumstances of use, symptoms of tolerance, physiological or psychological withdrawal, or both, if use is reduced or discontinued, and impairment of health or disruption of social or economic functioning. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Approved substance use disorder treatment program: means a program for persons with a substance use disorder provided by a treatment program licensed or certified by the department as meeting standards adopted under this chapter. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Authority: means the Washington state health care authority. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Available resources: means funds appropriated for the purpose of providing community behavioral health programs, federal funds, except those provided according to Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and state funds appropriated under this chapter or chapter 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
  • Behavioral health administrative services organization: means an entity contracted with the authority to administer behavioral health services and programs under RCW 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Behavioral health aide: means a counselor, health educator, and advocate who helps address individual and community-based behavioral health needs, including those related to alcohol, drug, and tobacco abuse as well as mental health problems such as grief, depression, suicide, and related issues and is certified by a community health aide program of the Indian health service or one or more tribes or tribal organizations consistent with the provisions of 25 U. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Behavioral health provider: means a person licensed under chapter 18. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Behavioral health services: means mental health services, substance use disorder treatment services, and co-occurring disorder treatment services as described in this chapter and chapter 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Child: means a person under the age of eighteen years. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • child who is severely emotionally disturbed: means a child who has been determined by the behavioral health administrative services organization or managed care organization, if applicable, to be experiencing a mental disorder as defined in chapter 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Clubhouse: means a community-based program that provides rehabilitation services and is licensed or certified by the department. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Community behavioral health program: means all expenditures, services, activities, or programs, including reasonable administration and overhead, designed and conducted to prevent or treat substance use disorder, mental illness, or both in the community behavioral health system. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Community behavioral health service delivery system: means public, private, or tribal agencies that provide services specifically to persons with mental disorders, substance use disorders, or both, as defined under RCW 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Community support services: means services authorized, planned, and coordinated through resource management services including, at a minimum, assessment, diagnosis, emergency crisis intervention available twenty-four hours, seven days a week, prescreening determinations for persons who are mentally ill being considered for placement in nursing homes as required by federal law, screening for patients being considered for admission to residential services, diagnosis and treatment for children who are acutely mentally ill or severely emotionally or behaviorally disturbed discovered under screening through the federal Title XIX early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment program, investigation, legal, and other nonresidential services under chapter 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Community-based crisis team: means a team that is part of an emergency medical services agency, a fire service agency, a public health agency, a medical facility, a nonprofit crisis response provider, or a city or county government entity, other than a law enforcement agency, that provides the on-site community-based interventions of a mobile rapid response crisis team for individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Consensus-based: means a program or practice that has general support among treatment providers and experts, based on experience or professional literature, and may have anecdotal or case study support, or that is agreed but not possible to perform studies with random assignment and controlled groups. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • County authority: means the board of county commissioners, county council, or county executive having authority to establish a behavioral health administrative services organization, or two or more of the county authorities specified in this subsection which have entered into an agreement to establish a behavioral health administrative services organization. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Crisis stabilization services: means services such as 23-hour crisis relief centers, crisis stabilization units, short-term respite facilities, peer-run respite services, and same-day walk-in behavioral health services, including within the overall crisis system components that operate like hospital emergency departments that accept all walk-ins, and ambulance, fire, and police drop-offs, or determine the need for involuntary hospitalization of an individual. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Department: means the department of health. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Director: means the director of the authority. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Drug addiction: means a disease characterized by a dependency on psychoactive chemicals, loss of control over the amount and circumstances of use, symptoms of tolerance, physiological or psychological withdrawal, or both, if use is reduced or discontinued, and impairment of health or disruption of social or economic functioning. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Early adopter: means a regional service area for which all of the county authorities have requested that the authority purchase medical and behavioral health services through a managed care health system as defined under RCW 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Evidence-based: means a program or practice that has been tested in heterogeneous or intended populations with multiple randomized, or statistically controlled evaluations, or both; or one large multiple site randomized, or statistically controlled evaluation, or both, where the weight of the evidence from a systemic review demonstrates sustained improvements in at least one outcome. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • First responders: includes ambulance, fire, mobile rapid response crisis team, coresponder team, designated crisis responder, fire department mobile integrated health team, community assistance referral and education services program under RCW 35. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Licensed or certified behavioral health agency: means :
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  • Long-term inpatient care: as used in this chapter does not include: (a) Services for individuals committed under chapter 71. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Managed care organization: means an organization, having a certificate of authority or certificate of registration from the office of the insurance commissioner, that contracts with the authority under a comprehensive risk contract to provide prepaid health care services to enrollees under the authority's managed care programs under chapter 74. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Mental health peer-run respite center: means a peer-run program to serve individuals in need of voluntary, short-term, noncrisis services that focus on recovery and wellness. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Mobile rapid response crisis team: means a team that provides professional on-site community-based intervention such as outreach, de-escalation, stabilization, resource connection, and follow-up support for individuals who are experiencing a behavioral health crisis, that shall include certified peer counselors as a best practice to the extent practicable based on workforce availability, and that meets standards for response times established by the authority. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • Recovery: means a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Research-based: means a program or practice that has been tested with a single randomized, or statistically controlled evaluation, or both, demonstrating sustained desirable outcomes; or where the weight of the evidence from a systemic review supports sustained outcomes as described in subsection (30) of this section but does not meet the full criteria for evidence-based. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Residential services: means a complete range of residences and supports authorized by resource management services and which may involve a facility, a distinct part thereof, or services which support community living, for persons who are acutely mentally ill, adults who are chronically mentally ill, children who are severely emotionally disturbed, or adults who are seriously disturbed and determined by the behavioral health administrative services organization or managed care organization to be at risk of becoming acutely or chronically mentally ill. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Resilience: means the personal and community qualities that enable individuals to rebound from adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or other stresses, and to live productive lives. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the department of health. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • State minimum standards: means minimum requirements established by rules adopted and necessary to implement this chapter by:
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  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Substance use disorder: means a cluster of cognitive, behavioral, and physiological symptoms indicating that an individual continues using the substance despite significant substance-related problems. See Washington Code 71.24.025
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.