California Code of Regulations › Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services › Division 1 - Department of Mental Health › Chapter 3 - Community Mental Health Services Under the Short-Doyle Act › Article 4 - Services Subject to State Reimbursement › Section 543 - Outpatient Services

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
Outpatient Services mean services designed to provide short-term
					 or sustained therapeutic intervention for individuals experiencing acute or ongoing
					 psychiatric distress. These service functions are the following:
(a) Collateral Services, which mean sessions with
				  significant persons in the life of the patient, necessary to serve the mental health
				  needs of the patient.
(b) Assessment,
				  which means services designed to provide formal documented evaluation or analysis of
				  the cause or nature of the patient's mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder.
				  Assessment services are limited to an intake examination, mental health evaluation,
				  physical examination, and laboratory testing necessary for the evaluation and
				  treatment of the patient's mental health needs.
(c) Individual Therapy, which means services
				  designed to provide a goal directed therapeutic intervention with the patient which
				  focuses on the mental health needs of the patient.
(d) Group Therapy, which means services designed
				  to provide a goal directed, face-to-face therapeutic intervention with the patient
				  and one or more other patients who are treated at the same time, and which focuses
				  on the mental health needs of the patients.
(e) Medication, which includes the prescribing,
				  administration, or dispensing of medications necessary to maintain individual
				  psychiatric stability during the treatment process. This service shall include
				  evaluation of side effects and results of medication.
(f) Crisis Intervention, which means immediate
				  therapeutic response which must include a face-to-face contact with a patient
				  exhibiting acute psychiatric symptoms to alleviate problems which, if untreated,
				  present an imminent threat to the patient or others.
1. Amendment
					 filed 8-23-83 as an emergency; effective upon filing (Register 83, No. 35). A
					 Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL within 180 days or emergency
					 language will be repealed on 2-19-84.
2. Reinstatement of section as it
					 existed prior to emergency amendment filed 8-23-83 by operation of Government Code
					 Section
					 11346.1(f)
					 (Register 84, No. 15).
3. Amendment filed 2-27-84 as an emergency;
					 effective upon filing (Register 84, No. 15). A Certificate of Compliance must be
					 transmitted to OAL within 180 days or emergency language will be repealed on
					 8-27-84.
4. Certificate of Compliance including amendment transmitted to
					 OAL 8-14-84 and filed 9-28-84 (Register 84, No. 39).
5. Editorial
					 correction of HISTORY NOTE No. 3 (Register 84, No. 28).
6. Certificate of
					 Compliance including amendment transmitted to OAL 8-14-84 and filed 9-28-84
					 (Register 84, No. 39).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						5705.1,
						Welfare and Institutions Code. Reference: Section
						5600,
						Welfare and Institutions Code.