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Senate Budget Reduction Exercise 1/26/2011
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
• The Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee proposed eliminating all non -
Medicaid funding for mental health and substance abuse services. This proposal results in
eliminating all Department of Children and Families funding in for community mental health and
substance abuse services or approximately $423,989,072.
• Community mental health - $262,551,601 in general revenue and impacting 144 providers
• Community substance abuse - $-161,437,471
The Senate's Proposed Reduction:
Elimination of. Adult Baker Act Funding:
• Loss of over $100 million recurring general revenue
• Elimination of 652 state funded -beds, and all state mobile crisis response services
• Affecting over 16,000 individuals needing emergency crisis care
Elimination of Non -Emergency Community Mental Health Funding:
• Loss of $160 million general revenue and other trust funds for residential and the outpatient
system of care
• Over 170,000 adults who received services through this funding source
• Loss of federal block grant
Elimination of Funding for Indigent Drug Prescription Program (IDP).
Loss of $6,780,276 in recurring general revenue
• Eliminating access to psychotropic medications for 15,000
Cost Effect of the Reductions
• Increased use of emergency rooms, general hospitals, county jails, the courts and other
aspects of the criminal justice system.
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• Hospital uncompensated care: $200 to $300 million (Average hospital cost per
patient $2,000 per day versus CSU at $292)
• Emergency room costs (Average $800 to $1,000)
• Increased cost of jails $3 to $4 million (Average jail cost $86 to $114 per day)
• Homelessness
• Increased length of stay at hospitals. The current number of individuals waiting
for state hospitalization is 58 people who wait on average of 53 days.
Currently, these individuals wait at CSUs.
• Burden on law enforcement
Advocates for Quality Behavioral Health Services 1/28/11