RCW 71.24.405: Streamlining delivery system.

The authority shall work comprehensively and collaboratively with behavioral health administrative services organizations and with local behavioral health service providers to create innovative and streamlined community behavioral health service delivery systems and to capture the diversity of the community behavioral health service delivery system. The authority shall periodically:

(1) Identify, review, and catalog all rules, regulations, duplicative administrative and monitoring functions, and other requirements that lead to inefficiencies in the community behavioral health service delivery system and, if possible, eliminate the requirements;

(2) Review regulations, contracts, and reporting requirements to ensure achievement of outcomes for behavioral health adult and children clients under RCW 71.24.435;

(3) Involve behavioral health consumers and their representatives; and

(4) Provide for an independent evaluation component to measure the success of the authority in fully implementing the provisions of RCW 71.24.400 and this section.