Bill > HB4092

This bill establishes a comprehensive framework for the 988 Mental Health Lifeline in Oklahoma, designating the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) to oversee suicide prevention and crisis services, including ensuring that designated 988 Lifeline Crisis Centers meet operational, performance, and clinical standards. It mandates the ODMHSAS to create rules for information sharing and communication between crisis and emergency response systems to facilitate real-time crisis care coordination, and to ensure collaboration and service linkages between crisis centers and stabilization services. A new "988 Trust Fund" is created to support and enhance the 988 Lifeline system, including mobile crisis teams and co-response services, and to fund crisis receiving and stabilization services, with funds being continuously appropriated and not reverting at the end of the fiscal year. The bill also outlines strategies for adequate funding of behavioral health crisis services, including maximizing federal funding sources like Medicaid reimbursement and federal grants, and requires the Oklahoma Insurance Department and Medicaid to enforce reimbursement for medically necessary behavioral health crisis services by health care plans and insurers, aligning with federal mental health parity laws. The act is set to become effective on November 1, 2026.

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http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb4092&Session=2600