SERVICE RESEARCH OF COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT PROGRAMS.

SEC. 2040. SERVICE RESEARCH OF COMMUNITY-BASED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT PROGRAMS. Part B of title XIX of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x et seq.), as amended by section 2039 of this Act, is further amended by adding after section 1922 the following new section: “service research on community-based mental health treatment programs“Sec. 1923. (a)(1) The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, shall develop and maintain an ongoing program of research on community mental health programs and services. Such program shall include an evaluation of— “(A) the most effective methods of providing community-based prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation services for the mentally ill; and “(B) the quality, appropriateness, and costs of different methods of treatment utilized in such programs with respect to diagnoses of mental illness for which such programs provided treatment. “(2) Research and evaluations required in paragraph (1) may be carried out through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements. 102 STAT. 4205 “(b) The Director of the National Institute of Mental Health may, to the extent practicable, establish research centers to carry out the evaluations required in subsection (a)(1). Such research centers shall establish and maintain liaisons with community mental health systems that provide services to the mentally ill. “(c) (1) The Administrator shall develop and make available, from time to time, a model plan for a community-based system of care for chronically mentally ill individuals. Such plan shall be developed in consultation with State mental health directors, providers of mental health services, chronically mentally ill individuals, advocates for such individuals, and other interested parties. “(2) The Administrator, in cooperation with members of the insurance industry, other members of the business community, and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall develop a model insurance plan for consideration for adoption by such Director and the Congress. In developing such a plan, the Secretary shall consider the costs and benefits of alternative designs.”.