Section 5119.362. [Effective 9/15/2016] Duties of community addiction services provider

(A) In accordance with rules adopted under section 5119.363 of the Revised Code, each community addiction services provider shall do all of the following:

(1) Maintain, in an aggregate form, a waiting list of individuals to whom all of the following apply:

(a) The individual has been documented as having a clinical need for alcohol and drug addiction services due to an opioid or co-occurring drug addiction.

(b) The individual has applied to the provider for a clinically necessary treatment or support service required by division (A)(11)(c)(ix) of section 340.03 of the Revised Code to be included in the continuum of care established under that section.

(c) The individual has not begun to receive the clinically necessary treatment or support service within five days of the individual's application for the service because the provider lacks an available slot for the individual.

(2) Notify an individual included on the provider's waiting list when the provider has a slot available for the individual and, if the individual does not contact the provider about the slot within a period of time specified in the rules, contact the individual to determine why the individual did not contact the provider and to assess whether the individual still needs the treatment or support service;

(3) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, report all of the following information each month to the board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services that serves the county or counties in which the provider provides alcohol and drug addiction services:

(a) An unduplicated count of all individuals who reside in a county that the board serves and were included on the provider's waiting list as of the last day of the immediately preceding month and each type of treatment and support service for which they were waiting;

(b) The total number of days all such individuals had been on the provider's waiting list as of the last day of the immediately preceding month;

(c) The last known types of residential settings in which all such individuals resided as of the last day of the immediately preceding month;

(d) The number of all such individuals who did not contact the provider after receiving, during the immediately preceding month, the notices under division (A)(2) of this section about the provider having slots available for the individuals, and the reasons the contacts were not made;

(e) The number of all such individuals who withdrew, in the immediately preceding month, their applications for the treatment and support services, each type of service for which those individuals had applied, and the reasons the applications were withdrawn;

(f) All other information specified in the rules.

(B) If a community addiction services provider provides alcohol and drug addiction services in more than one county and those counties are served by different boards of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services, the provider shall provide separate reports under division (C)(3) of this section to each of the boards serving the counties in which the provider provides the services. The report provided to a board shall be specific to the county or counties the board serves and not include information for individuals residing in other counties.

(C) Each report that a community addiction services provider provides to a board of alcohol, drug addiction, and mental health services under this section shall do all of the following:

(1) Maintain the confidentiality of all individuals for whom information is included in the report;

(2) For the purpose of the information reported under division (A)(3)(c) of this section, identify the types of residential settings at least as either institutional or noninstitutional;

(3) If the report is provided to a board that serves more than one county, present the information included in the report in a manner that is broken down for each of the counties the board serves.

Added by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 483, §101.01, eff. 9/15/2016.