Relating to human services; expanding reimbursement for mental health services under medical assistance (MA); providing for the reimbursement rate for diagnostic assessments for adult rehabilitative mental health services; modifying certain payments for mental health services provisions; providing for intensive mental health outpatient treatment; defining family psycho education for children's therapeutic services and supports purposes; requiring skills training to be provided to parents, guardians and caregivers without the child present; providing for reimbursement of diagnostic assessments; requiring the medical assistance payment rates for mental health services provided by mental health professionals to be determined by using the average usual and customary charge of the doctoral prepared professionals; increasing the mental health centers and clinics reimbursement rate, requiring the commissioner of human services to adjust rates paid to prepaid health plans under contract with the commissioner; modifying the definition of covered health services to include outpatient mental health services
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