2021-2022 Interim Testimony

Acute psychiatric hospital and residential care services and programs available and any recommendations of additional services and needs

Status of an institutions for mental disease waiver for North Dakota tribal entities

Percentage and total utilization of State Hospital beds and facilities; data relating to the number of individuals referred by the courts for assessment at human service centers and the number of individuals sentenced or released to receive treatment at the State Hospital or human service centers; and the number of individuals from Jamestown and Devils Lake and the surrounding areas who receive acute care services at the State Hospital, including the cost of providing the services

Bed capacity and utilization of the State Hospital, including buildings currently occupied, buildings no longer in service, behavioral health services provided, and future bed capacity and utilization needs of the State Hospital and patients

North Dakota Behavioral Health Strategic Plan

• Behavioral Health Strategic Plan Dashboard

Cost, benefit and need of implementing a behavioral health bed management system and the status of the system's implementation

Institutions of Mental Diseases Concept and Process Overview

Public inpatient and outpatient public behavioral health services

• Handout: Behavioral Health Crisis Services
• Handout: Residential Care and Geropsychiatric Services

Behavioral Health Services

• Handout: Licensed Substance Abuse Treatment Program in North Dakota
• Handout: Medicaid 1915i State Plan Amendment Overview
• Handout: ND Behavioral Health Strategic Plan Dashboard

DHS response to Alvarez and Marsal Study

Update regarding the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) pilot project and the ASD task force

Benefit cliffs in public assistance programs

Annual report regarding the children's health insurance program

Interim Indirect Cost Study for Human Service Zones

Updates on Human Service Zone issues and background checks

• Handout: CBCU Data January - June 2021 and 2022

Update regarding studies affecting human service zones

Early childhood services update - Report on 4-Year Old Program and division efforts

Use of funds in the tribal health care coordination fund

Options to address "benefit cliffs" in public assistance programs- Helping families overcome barriers to economic success

Provider reimbursement rates under the medical assistance expansion program

Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment Program

Update on behavioral health services

Update on increased access to home and community-based services

Permanent supportive housing services

Refugee resettlement program

Early childhood programs

Current status of the federal public health emergency

DHS quality strategy

• Children's Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid
• Adult's Health Care Quality Measures for Medicaid

Status of the integration of the Department of Health and Department of Human Services

Options for human service zones to opt in to state employment

• Governance Process and Timeline

Options to remove the "benefit cliff" from public assistance programs

Update on the status of the development of a revised payment methodology for basic care facilities pursuant to Section 60 of House Bill No. 1012 (2021)

Federal Medicaid 1915(i) state plan amendment, including recent changes to the amendment

Pharmacy services provided through the Medicaid program, including high-cost drugs

Youth shelter and residential facilities

Department of Health and Department of Human Services Integration update

Update regarding the transition to a new vendor for the Medicaid Expansion program and an update regarding the federal COVID-19 public health emergency, including program and funding changes when the health emergency ends

Status of the development of a process for the payment of indirect costs to human service zones and status of developing a process to transition human service zone employees to state employment (opt-in)

Regarding income and asset limits for public assistance programs, state's median income and federal poverty levels, andTANF JOBS and SNAP employment and training program (HCR 3013)

Report on program for four-year-olds (Best in Class) and DHS Early Childhood Division

Refugee resettlement in the state

Regarding enrollment statistics and costs of the children's health insurance program state plan

Information regarding children referred for services through the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program but who do not receive treatment

Study of DHS and human service zone employee compensation

• Handout - Average compensation ratio DHS & human service zones
• Handout - Average compensation rate by job code

Developmental Disabilities System Reimbursement Project

Overview of the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program and an update on the department's study of the program

Refugee services

Department of Health and Department of Human Services integration update

Early Childhood Services

Public assistance programs that limit the number of hours worked or the amount of income that may be received, including whether the limitations are imposed by state or federal laws

Overview of the autism spectrum disorder waiver and autism spectrum disorder voucher programs

Overview of developmental disabilities and the developmental disabilities system in the state including eligibility criteria and screening process

Overview of human service zones, information about compensation disparities, and employee benefits

• Handout: Employee benefits

Caprice Knapp, Jessica Thomasson, Rosalie Etherington and Pamela Sagness, Executive Policy Directors

Proposals to use funds for information technology and other purposes (108)

Pamela Sagness, Behavioral Health Executive Policy Director

Proposals to use funds for other purposes - Community behavioral health recommendations (111)

Jessica Thomasson, Family Stability and Community Inclusion Executive Policy Director

Proposals to use funds for other purposes - Child care recommendations (112 and 113)