1. (a) Emergency services shall be:

   1. (1) Covered CMHP services;

   2. (2) Face to face interventions for the purposes of:

      1. a. Reducing a recipient’s acute psychiatric symptoms;
      2. b. Reducing the likelihood of the recipient harming self or others; or
      3. c. Assisting the recipient to return to his or her pre-crisis level of functioning; and
   3. (3) Conducted with the therapist in direct, personal, involvement with the recipient and at the recipient’s request, natural and surrogate family members.
2. (b) Emergency services shall be available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week and be accessible to individuals anywhere in the region served by the CMHP.
3. (c) As follow-up to the initial emergency response, an individual shall be eligible to receive a maximum of 5 emergency service sessions, consisting of not more than 6 15-minute units per session, for the purpose of stabilization of the emergency situation prior to intake or referral to another service or agency.
4. (d) Emergency services shall be billed in 15-minute units, and shall be limited to 6 units per recipient per day to a maximum of 6 sessions per period of acute psychiatric crisis.
5. (e) Emergency services shall be provided by staff of discrete emergency services programs or other staff serving as part of a formalized emergency services rotation.
6. (f) Emergency assessment shall be provided for the purpose of emergency evaluation for hospital placement, crisis respite care, revocation of conditional discharge, or other out-of-home placement.
7. (g) The providers of emergency assessment shall meet the qualifications established in He-M 426.08(h)-(m).

Source. (See Revision Note at part heading for He-M 426) #5433, eff 7-2-92, EXPIRED: 7-2-98 New. #7088, eff 8-31-99; ss by #8867, eff 4-13-07; ss by #9285, eff 9-30-08 (from He-M 426.08); ss by #11182, INTERIM, eff 9-29-16, EXPIRES: 3-28-17; ss by #12154, eff 3-28-17