2017 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Behavioral Health
Mental Health and Mental Health Disorders
Article 67 - Child Mental Health Treatment Act
§ 27-67-105. Monitoring - report

(1) On or before September 1, 2009, and by September 1 of each year thereafter, each community mental health center shall report to the state department the following information, and each behavioral health organization, for those children eligible to receive medicaid benefits whose parent or legal guardian requests residential treatment, shall report to the department of health care policy and financing the following information:

(a) The number of children, both those children who are categorically eligible for medicaid under the capitated mental health system described in section 25.5-5-411, C.R.S., and those children who are at risk of out-of-home placement, to whom the following services were provided:

(I) An assessment pursuant to section 27-67-104 (1)(a);

(II) In-home family mental health treatment;

(III) Community-based treatment, including but not limited to therapeutic foster care services;

(IV) Family preservation services;

(V) Residential treatment; and

(VI) Post-residential follow-up services;

(b) The number of children, both those children who are categorically eligible for medicaid under the capitated mental health system described in section 25.5-5-411, C.R.S., and those children who are at risk of out-of-home placement, referred to the county department for a dependency or neglect investigation pursuant to section 27-67-104 (2), and the reasons therefor;

(c) The number of children for whom either:

(I) An assessment was requested but not performed, and the reasons that the assessment was not performed; or

(II) An assessment was performed but the mental health agency did not provide services under this article, and the reasons that services were not provided, including whether the family refused the services offered;

(d) The costs associated with the provision of the mental health treatment services;

(e) The profiles of the children and families served;

(f) The outcomes of treatment for the children served, as determined by the state department in consultation with mental health agencies, service providers, and families;

(g) If residential services were provided, the length of stay; and

(h) The aggregate number of complaints submitted pursuant to the dispute resolution process described in section 27-67-107, the nature of the complaints, and the general disposition of the cases.

(2) On or before October 1, 2009, and on or before October 1 of each year thereafter, the department of health care policy and financing shall provide to the state department the information received from behavioral health organizations pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.