Regulation .02 Funding Priorities.

In selecting community health resources proposals to be funded under this subtitle, the Commission shall:

Consider geographic balance; and

Give priority to community health resources that:

(1)

In addition to normal business hours, operate during evening and weekend hours;

(2)

Have partnered with a hospital to establish a reverse referral program at the hospital;

(3)

Reduce the use of the hospital emergency department for nonemergency services;

(4)

Assist patients in establishing a medical home with a community health resource;

(5)

Coordinate and integrate the delivery of primary and specialty care services;

(6)

Promote the integration of mental and somatic health with federally qualified health centers or other somatic care providers;

(7)

Fund medication management or therapy services for uninsured individuals:

(a)

Whose income is up to 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines;

(b)

Who meet medical necessity criteria; and

(c)

Who are ineligible for the public mental health system;

(8)

Provide a clinical home for individuals who access hospital emergency departments for mental health services, substance abuse services, or both; and

(9)

Support the implementation of evidence-based clinical practices.