HCA External Review | WAC 182-531A-0900 ABA | Comments Due 03/06/2024

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February 21, 2024

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WAC external review

Proposed revisions:

WAC 182-531A-0900, Applied behavior analysis (ABA) – Covered services

Purpose

The agency is amending this rule to specify that the agency’s applied behavior analysis program does not pay for services provided by a client’s parent, guardian, caregiver, or other support person. The agency invites your review and comment on this proposed rule.

The agency is also seeking information to inform its preparation of a small business economic impact statement under the Regulatory Fairness Act (chapter 19.85 RCW). The agency invites you to provide information relevant to the following issues:

Whether the proposed rule imposes compliance or other costs on your business, and if so, the kind and extent of those costs
Whether the proposed rule will result in lost revenue, and if so, the extent of that lost revenue
How the agency could amend its proposed rule to reduce the costs and other impacts the rule imposes on businesses while retaining the rule’s objectives

To comment: Download the Word document, use track changes, save, and return to the email address in the first column below.

Review 182-531A-0900

Comments due by: March 6, 2024

Return comments on proposed rules to:

Brian Jensen
Rules and Publications
Program Manager

Direct policy questions to:

Alyssa Jennings
Clinical Quality and Care Transformation
with cc to
Brian Jensen

All comments are considered

Thank you for your interest in the Health Care Authority’s (HCA) rulemaking process. There will be another opportunity to comment after the official draft is published. All comments are retained in HCA’s permanent rule file and are subject to public review and disclosure, as are the names of those who comment.

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Functioning as both the state's largest health care purchaser and its behavioral health authority, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is a leader in ensuring Washington residents have the opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

There are three pillars of our work: Apple Health (Medicaid); the Public Employees Benefits Board (PEBB) and School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB) programs; and behavioral health and recovery. Under these pillars, HCA purchases health care, including behavioral health treatment for more than 2.7 million Washington residents and provides behavioral health prevention, crisis, and recovery supports to all Washington residents.

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