Arkansas Administrative Code
Agency 016 - DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES
Division 23 - Behavioral Health Services
Rule 016.23.16-001 - Rehabilitative Services for Persons with Mental Illness Moratorium Amendment 7
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 9, September, 2024
(1) There are over 275 outpatient service sites in the state for the delivery of Rehabilitation Services for Persons With Mental Illness (RSPMI). The Division of Behavioral Health Services has no information that any eligible Medicaid beneficiary experiences difficulty obtaining medically necessary RSPMI care and services.
(2) Medicaid pays for RSPMI on a fee-for-service basis. Uncontrolled expansion of RSPMI sites will increase provider costs for staff and infrastructure. These inefficiencies will pressure providers to find ways to deliver more services and thereby unnecessarily increase costs to the Arkansas Medicaid Program.
(3) The Arkansas Medicaid Program projects that there will be insufficient state general revenues available to maintain the current level of Medicaid services beginning in state fiscal year 2014.
(4) Among other things, the Medicaid Program is seeking ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and maximize the use of federal funds as required under Ark. Code Ann. § 25-10-129. However, no federal funding incentives are available for the expansion of the RSPMI program.
(5) For the above reasons it is necessary that the moratorium on new RSPMI sites remain intact as amended below.
As stated in Section VI of the DBHS RSPMI Certification Rule, DBHS will process all certification requests within ninety calendar days of receiving all informafion that is necessary to review and process the certification request. DBHS will notify each prospective provider/provider in wriUng of its determination and furnish a copy to DMS.
Services on October 31, 2008;
services when the provider is terminating services at a currently certified and operating RSPMI
site;
