Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-301.2 - [Effective 7/1/2025] The behavioral health care continuum

(1) Behavioral health services. Behavioral health services overseen by a BH-ASO will include ensuring access to the full continuum of behavioral health care, including:
a. Prevention services, including indicated prevention, primary substance use prevention and universal prevention, and selective prevention.
b. Early identification.
c. Early intervention services.
d. Crisis services, including immediate access to crisis assessment and evaluation; access centers; sobering centers; mobile crisis response; crisis-stabilization, community-based services; and crisisstabilization, residential services.
e. Mental health outpatient treatment services, including screening, assessment, diagnosis, risk assessment, and crisis planning.
f. Mental health, high-intensity outpatient treatment services, including ACT, intensive outpatient programs (IOP), intensive psychiatric rehabilitation (IPR), partial hospitalization, and day treatment.
g. PMIC.
h. Mental health inpatient treatment.
i. Hospital alternatives, including subacute services, 23-hour observation and holding, and crisis respite services.
j. Substance use disorder outpatient treatment services, including assessment and evaluation services.
k. Substance use disorder intensive outpatient treatment services.
l. Substance use disorder partial hospitalization services.
m. Substance use disorder clinically managed residential treatment services.
n. Recovery supports.
o. Peer support and peer recovery coaching.
p. Peer wellness and recovery community centers.
q. Transitional living and recovery housing programs.
r. Jail-based behavioral health services, including provision of behavioral health treatment and medications in jails.
s. Commitment-related services, including prescreening, secure transportation, legal representation, and mental health advocates.
t. Outpatient competency restoration.
u. Outreach, education, and engagement services.
v. Additional services deemed necessary for a district or statewide as determined by the district behavioral health service system plan and approved by the department.
(2) Additional requirements. Additional requirements related to behavioral health services include crisis system navigation that must be available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
(3) Option for waiting lists. The department will maintain a waiting list of individuals denied access to the program due to lack of available funds. Waiting list information will include the date on which the individual was placed on the waiting list. If additional funds become available, the department will contact individuals on the list.

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Iowa Admin. Code r. 441-301.2
Adopted by IAB May 14, 2025/Volume XLVII, Number 23, effective 7/1/2025

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