Iowa Code Title VI. Human Services [Chs. 216-255A] § 225A.3. Behavioral health service system--department powers and duties

(1) Prevention intervention services and education programs designed to reduce and mitigate behavioral health conditions and future behavioral health conditions.  Prevention intervention programs shall incorporate indicated prevention, selective prevention, and universal prevention activities.

(2) Evidence-based and evidence-informed early intervention and treatment services.

(3) Comprehensive recovery support services with a focus on community-based services that avoid, divert, or offset the need for long-term inpatient services, law enforcement involvement, or incarceration.

(4) Crisis services with a focus on reducing the escalation of crisis situations, relieving the immediate distress of individuals experiencing a crisis situation, and reducing the risk that individuals in a crisis situation harm themselves.

a. (1) Develop a state behavioral health service system plan that accomplishes all of the following:

(2) The department shall do all of the following when developing the state behavioral health service system plan:

(1) Minimum access standards to ensure equitable access to services provided through the behavioral health service system including but not limited to when services are available, who is eligible for services, and where services are available.

(2) Methods to ensure each individual who is eligible for services receives an uninterrupted continuum of care for prevention, education, early intervention, treatment, recovery support, and crisis services.

(3) Standards for the implementation and maintenance of behavioral health programs and services offered by the behavioral health service system, and by each administrative services organization.

(4) Procedures for the management and oversight of behavioral health providers to ensure compliance with the terms of the behavioral health providers' contracts relating to the behavioral health service system, and with state and federal law and rules.

(5) Procedures for the suspension of an administrative services organization's services due to the administrative services organization's failure to comply with the terms and conditions of its contract with the department.

(6) Procedures for the reallocation of funds from an administrative services organization that is not in compliance with the terms of its contract with the department to an alternative administrative services organization or a behavioral health provider to provide for services the noncompliant administrative services organization failed to provide.

(7) Procedures for the termination of an administrative services organization's designation as an administrative services organization.

(8) Procedures for the collection, utilization, and maintenance of the data necessary to establish a central data repository in accordance with section 225A.6.

(9) Any other requirements the department deems necessary to ensure that an administrative services organization fulfills the administrative services organization's duties as established in this chapter, and as established in the administrative services organization's district behavioral health plan.