Revision: Nov. 18, 2023, 4:58 p.m.
2024 SESSION
24-3010.0
05/08
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to inpatient psychiatric services authorization and utilization review.
SPONSORS: [sponsors]
COMMITTEE: [committee]
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ANALYSIS
This bill directs the commissioner of the department of health and human services to establish uniform guidelines for inpatient psychiatric services under the managed care law.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-3010.0
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to inpatient psychiatric services authorization and utilization review.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Managed Care Law; Utilization Review. Amend RSA 420-J:6 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VII. The commissioner shall establish uniform guidelines for inpatient psychiatric services authorization and utilization review. The uniform guidelines shall establish a single set of criteria for admission, continued stay, discharge determinations, and retrospective review. The guidelines shall prohibit utilization review during the first 30 days of inpatient or residential behavioral health admission, provided that the treating facility notifies the health plan of the admission and the treatment plan within 2 days of the admission and performs daily clinical review of the covered person.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.