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I am curious how other states are fulfilling reporting requirements to SAMHSA for block grant funding. Specifically, SAMHSA requires reporting on "performance indicators and accomplishments" that includes employment status by diagnosis, social connectedness and improved functioning, living situation, and other details about client demographics.

Maryland gathers this data by requiring providers to complete assessments with 60+ questions every six months in outpatient programs. The questionnaires used to be required as part of the authorization process. This was removed as a parity violation but is now going to be restored because we are told that Maryland will lose its block grant funding if the data isn't submitted.

We are trying to encourage Maryland to be more creative in its approach, and it would be helpful to know if other states are gathering the data in similar or different ways:

• Does your state draw the information from paid claims or other existing databases?
• Does your state have any process for uploading EMR extracts, rather than manually entering the data?
• Does any other state require the submission of data in order to get an authorization? Or as a "registration" process that purportedly complies with parity?
• For states with a carve-in, how is the state mental health authority capturing data from Medicaid MCOs? If it's not, that would be helpful to know.

Shannon Hall

I am curious how other states are fulfilling reporting requirements to SAMHSA for block grant funding. Specifically, SAMHSA requires reporting on "performance indicators and accomplishments" that includes employment status by diagnosis, social connectedness and improved functioning, living situation, and other details about client demographics.

Maryland gathers this data by requiring providers to complete assessments with 60+ questions every six months in outpatient programs. The questionnaires used to be required as part of the authorization process. This was removed as a parity violation but is now going to be restored because we are told that Maryland will lose its block grant funding if the data isn't submitted.

We are trying to encourage Maryland to be more creative in its approach, and it would be helpful to know if other states are gathering the data in similar or different ways:

• Does your state draw the information from paid claims or other existing databases?
• Does your state have any process for uploading EMR extracts, rather than manually entering the data?
• Does any other state require the submission of data in order to get an authorization? Or as a "registration" process that purportedly complies with parity?
• For states with a carve-in, how is the state mental health authority capturing data from Medicaid MCOs? If it's not, that would be helpful to know.

Shannon Hall

I am curious how other states are fulfilling reporting requirements to SAMHSA for block grant funding. Specifically, SAMHSA requires reporting on "performance indicators and accomplishments" that includes employment status by diagnosis, social connectedness and improved functioning, living situation, and other details about client demographics.

Maryland gathers this data by requiring providers to complete assessments with 60+ questions every six months in outpatient programs. The questionnaires used to be required as part of the authorization process. This was removed as a parity violation but is now going to be restored because we are told that Maryland will lose its block grant funding if the data isn't submitted.

We are trying to encourage Maryland to be more creative in its approach, and it would be helpful to know if other states are gathering the data in similar or different ways:

• Does your state draw the information from paid claims or other existing databases?
• Does your state have any process for uploading EMR extracts, rather than manually entering the data?
• Does any other state require the submission of data in order to get an authorization? Or as a "registration" process that purportedly complies with parity?
• For states with a carve-in, how is the state mental health authority capturing data from Medicaid MCOs? If it's not, that would be helpful to know.

Shannon Hall

I am curious how other states are fulfilling reporting requirements to SAMHSA for block grant funding. Specifically, SAMHSA requires reporting on "performance indicators and accomplishments" that includes employment status by diagnosis, social connectedness and improved functioning, living situation, and other details about client demographics.

Maryland gathers this data by requiring providers to complete assessments with 60+ questions every six months in outpatient programs. The questionnaires used to be required as part of the authorization process. This was removed as a parity violation but is now going to be restored because we are told that Maryland will lose its block grant funding if the data isn't submitted.

We are trying to encourage Maryland to be more creative in its approach, and it would be helpful to know if other states are gathering the data in similar or different ways:

• Does your state draw the information from paid claims or other existing databases?
• Does your state have any process for uploading EMR extracts, rather than manually entering the data?
• Does any other state require the submission of data in order to get an authorization? Or as a "registration" process that purportedly complies with parity?
• For states with a carve-in, how is the state mental health authority capturing data from Medicaid MCOs? If it's not, that would be helpful to know.

Shannon Hall