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(i) Children and adolescents discharged from an inpatient 1 hospital treatment program who require the level of services offered 2 by the pilot programs in lieu of continued inpatient treatment; 3 (ii) Children and adolescents who require the level of services 4 offered by the pilot programs in order to avoid inpatient 5 hospitalization; and 6 (iii) Services may not be offered if there are less costly 7 alternative community based services that can effectively meet the 8 needs of an individual referred to the program. 9 (e) The authority must collect data on the pilot sites and work 10 with the actuaries responsible for establishing managed care rates 11 for medicaid enrollees to develop and submit a report to the office 12 of financial management and the appropriate committees of the 13 legislature. A preliminary report must be submitted by December 1, 14 2021, and a final report must be submitted by December 1, 2022. The 15 reports must include the following information: 16 (i) A narrative description of the services provided at each 17 pilot site and identification of any specific gaps the sites were 18 able to fill in the current continuum of care; 19 (ii) Clinical outcomes and estimated reductions in psychiatric 20 inpatient costs associated with each of the pilot sites; 21 (iii) Recommendations for whether either or both of the pilot 22 models should be expanded statewide; whether modifications should be 23 made to the models to better address gaps in the continuum identified 24 through the pilot sites, whether the models could be expanded to 25 community behavioral health providers, and whether statewide 26 implementation should be achieved through a state plan amendment or 27 some other mechanism for leveraging federal medicaid match; and 28 (iv) Actuarial projections on the statewide need for services 29 related to the pilot sites and estimated costs of adding each of the 30 services to the medicaid behavioral health benefit for children and 31 adolescents and adults. 32 (f) Of the amounts provided in this subsection, $2,850,000 of the 33 general fund—state appropriation for fiscal year 2023 is provided 34 solely to expand the number of pilot sites to a third location. The 35 criteria in (c) and (d) of this subsection shall also apply to this 36 pilot site. Data from this pilot site must be incorporated into the 37 final report required in (e) of this subsection. 38 (41)(a) $100,000 of the general fund—federal appropriation is 39 provided solely for the authority to convene a task force to examine 40 p. 1015 ESSB 5187.SL