2023 Utah Code › Title 26B - Utah Health and Human Services Code › Chapter 5 - Health Care - Substance Use and Mental Health › Part 1 - General Provisions › Section 118 - Collaborative care grant program.

Affected by 63I-1-226 on 12/31/2024
Effective 5/3/2023
26B-5-118.
Collaborative care grant program.
(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Applicant" means a small primary health care practice that applies for a grant under this section.
(b) "Care manager" means an individual who plans, directs, and coordinates health care services for a patient.
(c) "Collaborative care model" means a formal collaborative arrangement between a primary care physician, a mental health professional, and a care manager, to provide integrated physical and behavioral health services.
(d) "Mental health professional" means an individual licensed under Title 58, Chapter 60, Mental Health Professional Practice Act, or Title 58, Chapter 61, Psychologist Licensing Act, or a psychiatrist.
(e) "Physician" means an individual licensed to practice as a physician or osteopath under Title 58, Chapter 67, Utah Medical Practice Act, or Title 58, Chapter 68, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act.
(f) "Primary care physician" means a physician that provides health services related to family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics, gynecology, or geriatrics.
(g) "Program" means a program described in Subsection (2)(a).
(h) "Psychiatrist" means a physician who is board eligible for a psychiatry specialization recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialists or the American Osteopathic Association's Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists.
(i) "Small primary health care practice" means a medical practice of primary health care physicians that:
(i) includes 10 or fewer primary care physicians; or
(ii) is primarily based in a county of the third through sixth class, as classified in Section 17-50-501.
(2)
(a) Before July 1, 2022, the division shall solicit applications from small primary health care practices for a grant to support or implement a program to provide integrated physical and behavioral health services under a collaborative care model.
(b) A grant under this section may be used to:
(i) hire and train staff to administer a program;
(ii) identify and formalize contractual relationships with mental health professionals and case managers to implement a program; or
(iii) purchase or upgrade software and other resources necessary to support or implement a program.
(c) The division shall approve at least one but not more than six applications each year.
(d) The division shall determine which applicants receive a grant under this section before December 31, 2022.
(3) An application for a grant under this section shall:
(a) identify the population to whom the applicant will provide services under a program;
(b) identify the small primary health care practice's current resources that are used to provide integrated physical and behavioral health services;
(c) explain how the population described in Subsection (3)(a) will benefit from the program;
(d) provide details regarding:
(i) how the applicant will provide timely and effective services under the program;
(ii) any existing or planned contracts or partnerships between the applicant and other persons that are related to a collaborative care model;
(iii) the methods the applicant will use to:
(A) protect the privacy of each individual to whom the applicant provides services under the program; and
(B) collect non-identifying data; and
(e) provide other information requested by the division for the division to evaluate the application.
(4) In evaluating an application for a grant under this section, the division shall consider:
(a) the extent to which providing the grant to the applicant will fulfill the purpose of providing increased integrated physical and behavioral health services; and
(b) the extent to which the population described in Subsection (3)(a) is likely to benefit from the applicant receiving the grant.
(5) Before July 1, 2023, the division shall submit a written report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee regarding each applicant the division provided a grant to in the preceding year under this section.
(6) Before July 1, 2024, the division shall submit a written report to the Health and Human Services Interim Committee regarding:
(a) data gathered and knowledge gained in relation to providing grants to an applicant; and
(b) recommendations for how the state can better implement integrated physical and behavioral health services.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 308, 2023 General Session