Current through Register Vol. 18, September 20, 2024
(1)
Organization of the Department of Public Health and Human Services.
(a) History The Department of Public Health
and Human Services was established by 1995 Laws of Montana, Chapter 546. The
department is provided for in 2-15-2201, MCA.
(b) Director The director of the Department
of Public Health and Human Services, appointed by the Governor, heads the
department.
(c) Branches and
Divisions The three department branches are Operations Services, Medicaid and
Health Services, and Economic Security Services supervised by branch managers,
reporting directly to the director. The department has 12 divisions. The Public
Health and Safety Division reports directly to the director. Each of the
divisions is headed by an administrator. The branches consist of the following
divisions:
(i) Economic Security Services
Branch
(A) Disability Employment and
Transitions Division;
(B) Human and
Community Services Division;
(C)
Child Support Enforcement Division;
(D) Child and Family Services Division;
and
(E) Intergovernmental
Relations.
(ii) Medicaid
and Health Services Branch
(A) Senior and
Long Term Care Division;
(B)
Developmental Services Division;
(C) Addictive and Mental Disorders Division;
and
(D) Health Resources
Division.
(iii)
Operations Services Branch
(A) Office of Fair
Hearings;
(B) Business and
Financial Services Division;
(C)
Quality Assurance Division; and
(D)
Technology Services Division.
(d) Administratively Attached Boards and
Councils Attached to the department for administrative purposes only are
several boards and councils created by state statutes. These boards are listed
in (4). Assistance from the department for the boards and councils is provided
as required by 2-15-121, MCA.
(2) Director's Office The director supervises
the department's three branch managers and the division administrator for
Public Health and Safety Division. In addition, the director provides
supervision to the Office of Human Resources, the Office of Legal Affairs, the
Prevention Resource Center, the Public Information Office, and Policy Services.
(a) Office of Human Resources This office
provides administration of the classification and pay plans, employee
relations, labor negotiations, leave administration, employment, and staff
development.
(b) Office of Legal
Affairs This office provides legal assistance to the department, supervises the
adoption of administrative rules, and coordinates the use of external legal
counsel.
(c) Prevention Resource
Center This office coordinates the department's prevention efforts with an
emphasis on Montana comprehensive youth prevention programs in areas such as
substance abuse and child and family safety. This office oversees Montana VISTA
program.
(d) Public Information
Office This office provides information to the public about the agency's
programs and services.
(e) Office
of Governmental Support This office provides a uniform approach to providing
information and assistance to the media, stakeholders, tribes, other government
entities, and constituents.
(f)
Intergovernmental Relations The intergovernmental relations specialist position
coordinates department projects and legislative proposals and communicates the
status of those projects with staff, legislative committees, and outside
parties.
(g) Tribal Relations
Manager This office is responsible for guiding the department's government
relations with Montana Native American Tribes.
(3) Organizational Structure
(a) Operations Services Branch This branch
provides direct supervision over the Office of Fair Hearings, Business and
Financial Services Division, Quality Assurance Division, and the Technology
Services Division. The branch manager develops policy on major issues affecting
operations and, as the chief operating and chief financial officer, is
responsible for the department's budget, finance, technology, and oversight
activities.
(i) Office of Fair Hearings This
office provides direct supervision and accounting, budgeting, and reporting
services for the branch. The Office of Fair Hearings is responsible for
administrative hearings for the department except for child support.
(ii) Business and Financial Services Division
This division provides fiscal and internal support services to the agency by
developing, implementing and monitoring accounting and fiscal processes and
systems. This office oversees the department's budgeting processes, and
supports and conducts statistical analyses of the major programs. The division
manages records, assets, office space agreements, and building safety and
maintenance.
(iii) Quality
Assurance Division This division is responsible for comprehensive and
coordinated quality assurance programs, including detecting and investigating
abusive or fraudulent practices within benefit programs, reducing Medicaid
costs by identifying other responsible parties, conducting internal and
independent audits, and providing state health care and day care licensing and
health care certification for Medicare and Medicaid.
(iv) Technology Services Division This
division is responsible for planning, design, development, implementation,
operation, and security of information technology systems and networks for the
department. The division administrator is the department's chief information
officer.
(b) Medicaid
and Health Services Branch This branch provides direct supervision over the
Senior and Long Term Care Division, Developmental Services Division, Addictive
and Mental Disorders Division, Health Resources Division, the Medicaid Systems
Support Program, and the Healthy Montana Kids Program. The branch also provides
medical, rehabilitative, and mental health services for Montanans through a
variety of programs. The branch manager oversees and coordinates programs and
activities of the branch and, as the state Medicaid and Healthy Montana Kids
(known federally as CHIP) director, establishes policy for the Montana Medicaid
and Healthy Montana Kids program.
(i) Senior
and Long Term Care Division This division plans and coordinates the delivery of
publicly funded long term care and support services to elderly Montanans and
Montanans with physical and other disabilities. The division manages two
nursing facilities for veterans located in Columbia Falls and Glendive,
Montana.
(ii) Developmental
Services Division This division provides for community-based training and
residential services for persons with developmental disabilities. It plans and
coordinates services for children with mental illness. The division manages the
Montana Developmental Center, a state facility for adults.
(iii) Addictive and Mental Disorders Division
This division provides, directly and through independent providers, a statewide
continuum of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services for people with
chemical dependency and adult mental illness. The division manages three state
facilities that provide mental health and chemical dependency services for
adults. The Montana Chemical Dependency Center provides drug and alcohol
treatment services for adults, the Montana Mental Health Nursing Care Center
provides long-term care for people with mental illness who require nursing home
care, and the Montana State Hospital provides inpatient psychiatric hospital
services to adults with serious mental illness.
(iv) Health Resources Division This division
administers preventive and acute care Medicaid services for adults and children
in the Healthy Montana Kids Program.
(v) Medicaid Systems Support Program This
program works in conjunction with the state Medicaid director and division
administrators by providing oversight and guidance on management of the
Medicaid programs. It also oversees the Medicaid Management Information System
(MMIS) contractor that is responsible for the processing and payment of
Medicaid claims.
(c)
Economic Security Services Branch This branch provides direct supervision over
the Human and Community Services Division, Child Support Enforcement Division,
Child and Family Services Division, and the Disability Employment and
Transitions Program. The branch delivers a broad range of social services to
communities in Montana. The branch manager develops an organized approach to
family economic security, assists with interdepartmental issues such as system
development and tribal relations and develops strategies to manage scarce
resources.
(i) Disability Employment and
Transitions Division This division supervises department programs that help
people with disabilities find employment and successfully interact within their
community. This work is accomplished through the Blind and Low Vision Services
Division which provides services to the visually impaired.
(ii) Human and Community Services Division
This division provides support for low-income Montanans in securing basic needs
such as food, energy, child care, and income. In addition, the division assists
Montanans in achieving self-sufficiency through employment and training. The
division determines eligibility for Medicaid and the Healthy Montana Kids
Program.
(iii) Child Support
Enforcement Division (CSED) This division establishes paternity, locates
obligated parents, establishes and modifies legal obligations requiring parents
to provide medical and financial support for their children, and enforces those
obligations. Services are provided to families receiving assistance under
Montana's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or under the
federal TANF program, Medicaid, or IV-E programs. Services are also provided to
parents or custodians who apply for CSED services, or who are referred through
the interstate IV-D system.
(iv)
Child and Family Services Division This division administers programs to
protect children and youth from abuse, neglect, and abandonment. The division
works with communities and providers to support the strengths of families to
increase their ability to nurture and provide for their children. The division
provides child protective services (including investigatory services, emergency
protective services, voluntary protective services, court-ordered protective
services, and permanency services) to children and families, licenses family
foster homes, child placing agencies and adoption agencies, and provides
adoption services to children in the custody of the state of Montana.
(d) Public Health and Safety
Division This division has primary responsibility for communicable disease
control and prevention, public health emergency preparedness, chronic disease
prevention and health promotion, emergency medical services, maternal and child
health services, clinical and environmental laboratory services, and
coordinating, supporting, and strengthening the state's public health
system.
(4)
Administratively attached entities
(a) Board
of Public Assistance created by 2-15-2203, MCA.
(b) Committee on Telecommunications Access
Services for Persons with Disabilities created by 2-15-2212, MCA.
(c) Governor's Advisory Council on Aging
created by 2-15-2206, MCA.
(d)
Montana Children's Trust Fund Board created by 2-15-2214 and 52-7-101,
MCA.
(e) State Trauma Care
Committee created by 2-15-2216, MCA.
(f) Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Council
created by 2-15-2217, MCA.
(5) Information or Submissions General
inquiries regarding the department may be addressed to the director. Specific
inquiries regarding the functions of each division may be addressed to the
administrator of that division. Requests for fair hearings should be addressed
to the county or state office whose action is contested or to the Department of
Public Health and Human Services, Office of Fair Hearings, 2401 Colonial Drive,
P.O. Box 202953, Helena, MT 59620-2953. Requests for fair hearings pertaining
to child support should be addressed to the Office of Administrative Law Judge,
111 N. Jackson, Suite 2B, Helena, MT 59601. All requests for declaratory
rulings and for participation in rulemaking may be addressed to the Office of
Legal Affairs, unless the notice in the Montana Administrative Register makes
specific provisions for submissions. The general address for the department,
unless otherwise stated, is P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
(6) Personnel Roster Addresses of the
director's office and each division are as follows:
Director's Office, Department of Public Health and Human
Services, 111 N. Sanders Street, P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
Administrator, Addictive and Mental Disorders Division, 100
N. Park, Ste. 300, P.O. Box 202905, Helena, MT 59620-2905.
Administrator, Business and Financial Services Division, 111
N. Sanders, P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
Administrator, Child and Family Services Division, 301 S.
Park, P.O. Box 8005, Helena, MT 59620-8005.
Administrator, Child Support Enforcement Division, 3075 N.
Montana, P.O. Box 202943, Helena, MT 59620-2943.
Administrator, Disability Employment and Transitions
Division, Arcade Building, 111 N. Jackson, P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT
59604-4210.
Administrator, Developmental Services Division, 111 N.
Sanders, P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
Administrator, Health Resources Division, 1400 Broadway, Rm.
A203, P.O. Box 202951, Helena, MT 59620-2951.
Administrator, Human and Community Services Division, Arcade
Building, 111 N. Jackson, P.O. Box 202925, Helena, MT 59620-2925.
Administrator, Public Health and Safety Division, 1400
Broadway, P.O. Box 202951, Helena, MT 59620-2951.
Administrator, Quality Assurance Division, 2401 Colonial
Drive, P.O. Box 202953, Helena, MT 59620-2953.
Administrator, Senior and Long Term Care Division, 2030 11th
Avenue, P.O. Box 4210, Helena, MT 59604-4210.
Administrator, Technology Services Division, 111 N. Sanders,
P.O. Box 4210, Helena, Montana 59604.
(7) Agency Organizational Chart A descriptive
organizational chart of the Department of Public Health and Human Services is
attached.
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2-4-201,
2-4-202, MCA; IMP,
2-4-201,
2-15-112,
MCA;
