(1) To better assure and understand issues related to network adequacy and access to services, the authority shall report to the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 1, 2017, and annually thereafter, on the status of access to behavioral health services for children from birth through age seventeen using data collected pursuant to RCW 70.320.050. (2) At a minimum, the report must include the following components broken down by age, gender, and race and ethnicity: (a) The percentage of discharges for patients ages six through seventeen who had a visit to the emergency room with a primary diagnosis of mental health or alcohol or other drug dependence during the measuring year and who had a follow-up visit with any provider with a corresponding primary diagnosis of mental health or alcohol or other drug dependence within thirty days of discharge; (b) The percentage of health plan members with an identified mental health need who received mental health services during the reporting period; (c) The percentage of children served by behavioral health administrative services organizations and managed care organizations, including the types of services provided; (d) The number of children's mental health providers available in the previous year, the languages spoken by those providers, and the overall percentage of children's mental health providers who were actively accepting new patients; and (e) Data related to mental health and medical services for eating disorder treatment in children and youth by county, including the number of: (i) Eating disorder diagnoses; (ii) Patients treated in outpatient, residential, emergency, and inpatient care settings; and (iii) Contracted providers specializing in eating disorder treatment and the overall percentage of those providers who were actively accepting new patients during the reporting period. [ 2019 c 325 s 4002; 2018 c 175 s 3; 2017 c 226 s 6; 2017 c 202 s 3; 2016 c 96 s 3.]
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