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and must require a behavioral health administrative service 1 organization to submit a corrective action plan on how it will spend 2 its excess reserves within a reasonable period of time, when its 3 reported reserves exceed maximum levels established under the 4 contract. The authority must review and approve such plans and 5 monitor to ensure compliance. If the authority determines that a 6 behavioral health administrative service organization has failed to 7 provide an adequate excess reserve corrective action plan or is not 8 complying with an approved plan, the authority must reduce payments 9 to the entity in accordance with remedial actions provisions included 10 in the contract. These reductions in payments must continue until the 11 authority determines that the entity has come into substantial 12 compliance with an approved excess reserve corrective action plan. By 13 June 30, 2023, the authority must submit to the office of financial 14 management and the appropriate committees of the legislature, the 15 minimum and maximum reserve levels established in contract for each 16 of the behavioral health administrative service organizations for 17 fiscal year 2024. 18 (14) During the 2021-2023 fiscal biennium, any amounts provided 19 in this section that are used for case management services for 20 pregnant and parenting women must be contracted directly between the 21 authority and pregnant and parenting women case management providers. 22 (15) Within the amounts appropriated in this section, the 23 authority may contract with the University of Washington and 24 community-based providers for the provision of the parent-child 25 assistance program or other specialized chemical dependency case 26 management providers for pregnant, post-partum, and parenting women. 27 For all contractors: (a) Service and other outcome data must be 28 provided to the authority by request; and (b) indirect charges for 29 administering the program must not exceed ten percent of the total 30 contract amount. 31 (16) $3,500,000 of the general fund—federal appropriation is 32 provided solely for the continued funding of existing county drug and 33 alcohol use prevention programs. 34 (17) Within the amounts provided in this section, behavioral 35 health entities must provide outpatient chemical dependency treatment 36 for offenders enrolled in the medicaid program who are supervised by 37 the department of corrections pursuant to a term of community 38 supervision. Contracts with behavioral health entities must require 39 that behavioral health entities include in their provider network 40 p. 1006 ESSB 5187.SL