Behavioral Health Crisis Services. The MCP shall ensure protocols, policies, and processes are in place for MCP and/or delegated staff to appropriately address member contacts related to behavioral health crisis needs. Protocols shall include, at a minimum, the involvement of qualified health professionals whose scope of practice and licensure permits them to perform the required functions associated with the services. Staff shall have experience with behavioral health crisis assessment and intervention as applicable, a mechanism to validate that the individual received the needed services (e.g. connection to crisis counseling services), and the ability to activate the MCP’s process 24/7.
Behavioral Health Crisis Services. 15 Behavioral Health Crisis Services (Crisis Services) means providing evaluation and short-term 16 treatment and other services to individuals with an emergent mental health condition or are 17 intoxicated or incapacitated due to substance use and when there is an immediate threat to 18 the individual's health or safety.
Behavioral Health Crisis Services. 2.7.2.8.1 Entry into the Behavioral Health Crisis Services System
Behavioral Health Crisis Services. The MCP must ensure that member-serving MCP staff know the continuum of community resources for behavioral health crisis services, including the statewide behavioral health crisis line and the appropriate Mobile Response and Stabilization Service (MRSS) within each region. The MCP must train MCP staff who interface with the public or have direct member contact on how to connect (through warm handoffs) members in need of behavioral health crisis services to the statewide behavioral health crisis line and the appropriate community MRSS. The MCP must track and document behavioral health crisis contacts from members and ensure that this information is shared as soon as possible and no later than the next business day with the MCP’s care coordination staff, OhioRISE Plan, and/or care coordination entity (CCE) for appropriate follow-up. For the purposes of this Agreement, a care coordination entity is defined as an entity that provides care coordination to a specific population. The MCP must work with ODM, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS), and other entities as identified by ODM to develop a robust continuum of behavioral health crisis services.
Behavioral Health Crisis Services. Crisis services must be available to children and adults experiencing a crisis 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Services must include screening, assessment, intervention services, and appropriate case disposition, including stabilization services where relevant. Services will seek to: • promote the safety and emotional stability of a recipient; • minimize further deterioration of a recipient; • help a recipient to obtain ongoing care and treatment; • prevent a recipient’s placement in a setting that is more intensive, costly, or restrictive than necessary and appropriate to meet a recipient’s needs when clinically appropriate; • provide support, psychoeducation, and referrals to third parties, including family members, friends, or service providers, for a recipient in need of crisis services.
Behavioral Health Crisis Services. (“Crisis Services”) Crisis Services means providing evaluation and short-term treatment and other services to individuals with an emergent mental health condition or are intoxicated or incapacitated due to substance use and when there is an immediate threat to the individual's health or safety.
