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necessary costs associated with the delivery of behavioral health 1 services. The study must include an evaluation of actual medicaid 2 managed care organization payment rates to the benchmark rates and 3 summarize the results of this evaluation. The study must be conducted 4 in a manner so that the benchmark comparison rates are incorporated 5 into a full behavioral health fee schedule that can be used for 6 assessing the costs associated with expansion of services, rate 7 increases, and medicaid managed care plan state directed payments. 8 The authority must provide a preliminary report on the study to the 9 office of financial management and the appropriate committees of the 10 legislature by June 30, 2023. 11 (((99))) (98) $382,000 of the general fund—state appropriation 12 for fiscal year 2023 and $254,000 of the general fund—federal 13 appropriation are provided solely for the authority, in collaboration 14 with the department of social and health services research and data 15 analysis division, to implement community behavioral health service 16 data into the existing executive management information system. Of 17 these amounts, $288,000 of the general fund—state appropriation for 18 fiscal year 2023 and $192,000 of the general fund—federal 19 appropriation are provided solely for the authority to reimburse the 20 research and data analysis division for staff costs associated with 21 this project. The data elements shall be incorporated into the 22 monthly executive management information system reports on a phased- 23 in basis, allowing for elements which are readily available to be 24 incorporated in the initial phase, and elements which require further 25 definition and data collection changes to be incorporated in a later 26 phase. The authority must collaborate with the research and data 27 analysis division to ensure data elements are clearly defined and 28 must include requirements in medicaid managed care organization and 29 behavioral health administrative services organization contracts to 30 provide the data in a consistent and timely manner for inclusion into 31 the system. The community behavioral health executive management 32 system information data elements must include, but are not limited 33 to: Psychiatric inpatient bed days; evaluation and treatment center 34 bed days; long-term involuntary community psychiatric inpatient bed 35 days; children's long-term inpatient bed days; substance use disorder 36 inpatient, residential, withdrawal evaluation and management, and 37 secure withdrawal evaluation and management bed days; crisis triage 38 and stabilization services bed days; mental health residential bed 39 p. 1039 ESSB 5187.SL