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(i) Repealed 2/2/2024. (Eff. 10/1/2011, Register 199; am 12/23/2022, Register 244; am 2/2/2024, Register 249; am 7/1/2025, Register 254) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.010 AS 47.07.030 7 AAC 135.170. Short-term crisis stabilization services. (a) The department will pay a community behavioral health services provider for short-term crisis stabilization services, provided by a substance use disorder counselor or a behavioral health clinical associate to a recipient, if that substance use disorder counselor or behavioral health clinical associate

(1) provides an initial assessment of the recipient’s overall functioning in relation to the short-term crisis;

(2) develops a short-term crisis stabilization plan; and

(3) documents, on a form provided by the department, the assessment, a short-term crisis stabilization plan, and the services that are provided. (b) The substance use disorder counselor or behavioral health clinical associate may provide, as part of the short-term crisis stabilization plan, any medically necessary and clinically appropriate behavioral health rehabilitation services necessary to return the recipient to the recipient’s mental, emotional, and behavioral level of functioning before the short-term crisis occurred. (c) Short-term crisis stabilization includes the following treatment and supports:

(1) individual or family counseling needed in response to the short-term crisis;

(2) individual or family training and education related to resolving the existing short-term crisis and preventing a future crisis;

(3) monitoring the recipient for safety purposes;

(4) any behavioral health rehabilitation services. (d) Notwithstanding any behavioral health treatment plan in effect for the recipient at the onset of a short-term crisis, if a recipient is receiving short-term crisis stabilization services, the