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Clarifies hospice payment policy relative to intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities (ICF/IID), freestanding hospice inpatient facilities, nursing facilities, and inpatient care facilities.
Adds Office Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) consisting of three tiers of treatment: primary care services, FQHC and clinic-based Opioid Treatment Providers (OTPs) and educational centers to serve as a resource for treatment, training and mentoring.
Reinstate the cost-based reimbursement to a State-owned Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) rendering inpatient psychiatric services to individuals under the age of twenty-one.