Eating Disorder Treatment & Recovery Programs

No later than July 1, 2025 January 1, 2026, the bill requires the behavioral health administration (BHA) to require all eating disorder treatment and recovery facilities (treatment facility) to hold an appropriate designation based on the level of care the treatment facility provides. Licensed clinicians who are not facility-based and offer behavioral health therapy on an outpatient basis are not required to hold a designation.

The bill directs the state board of human services to promulgate rules for treatment facilities.

The bill requires the BHA to promulgate rules concerning involuntary feeding tubes for individuals with an eating disorder.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)