AB514

Existing law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer Medicaid. (NRS 422.270) Section 1 of this bill requires the Director of the Department to include under Medicaid coverage for rehabilitative residential mental health care provided to certain recipients of Medicaid. Section 5 of this bill defines the term “rehabilitative residential mental health care” to mean community-based, medically monitored care provided in a residential setting that uses established rehabilitative principles to achieve certain goals relating to mental health. Section 6 of this bill applies that definition to provisions of existing law governing medical facilities and other related entities. Section 3 of this bill makes a conforming change to require the Director to administer the provisions of section 1 in the same manner as the provisions of existing law governing the State Plan for Medicaid. Section 17.5 of this bill makes appropriations to and authorizes expenditures by the Division of Health Care Financing and Policy of the Department for costs associated with providing the coverage required by section 1. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of community-based living arrangement services, which are flexible, individualized services that are: (1) provided in the home, for compensation, to persons with mental illness; and (2) designed and coordinated to assist such persons in maximizing th