/ en Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:29:41 -0500 Tue, 04 Jun 24 15:31:30 -0500 /news/headline/2024-06-04-hhs-adds-10-states-certified-community-behavioral-health-clinic-medicaid-demonstration-program <p>The Department of Health and Human Services June 4 <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/newsroom/press-announcements/20240604/biden-harris-administration-expands-access-mental-health-substance-use-services-addition-10-new-states-ccbhc-medicaid-demonstration-program">announced</a> the addition of 10 states into its Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Medicaid Demonstration Program, which provides states with sustainable funding to help them expand access to mental health and substance use services. Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Vermont were added to the program, joining eight other states. CCBHCs must ensure access to a comprehensive range of services that provide care coordination when needed and incorporate evidence-based practices in addition to support based on a community needs assessment, which includes crisis services that are available 24/7. CCBHCs are also required to provide routine outpatient care within 10 business days.<br> </p> Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:31:30 -0500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) /news/headline/2023-10-19-case-study-integrating-behavioral-health-justice-and-community-york-county <p>WellSpan Health’s Specialized Treatment and Recovery Team in York County, Pa., provides integrated care for patients considered too complex for conventional outpatient treatment or who require immediate access to care. <a href="/wellspans-start-program-integrating-behavioral-health-justice-and-community-york-county">READ MORE</a>  <br />  <br /> For more on the value of behavioral health integration, read this AHA <a href="/system/files/media/file/2019/12/value-initiative-issue-brief-integrated-behavioral-health-high-value-care.pdf">issue brief</a>. </p> Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:18:33 -0500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) /news/headline/2022-10-19-states-can-apply-community-behavioral-health-clinic-planning-grants <p>State Medicaid, mental health and other agencies <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/grants/grant-announcements/sm-23-015">can apply</a> through Dec. 19 for up to $1 million each to develop Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration expects to award up to 15 planning grants to states that have not already applied to participate in the <a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/certified-community-behavioral-health-clinics">CCBHC demonstration</a>. CCBHCs must provide 24/7 access to crisis services and routine outpatient care within 10 business days of initial contact. They also must serve anyone who requests care for mental health or substance use, regardless of their ability to pay, place of residence or age.</p> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:00:45 -0500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) /lettercomment/2019-05-06-aha-supports-bills-expand-access-treatment-mental-illness-suds <p>The AHA today expressed support for the Excellence in Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Expansion Act (H.R.1767/S. 824), bipartisan legislation that would renew and expand an innovative demonstration program that expands access to treatment of mental illnesses and substance use disorders through community-based clinics.</p> <p>To increase access to care, Congress, in the Protecting Access to Medicare Act, authorized demonstration programs in up to eight states to improve community behavioral health services through certified community behavioral health clinics CCBHCs – a new comprehensive treatment model that launched in 2017. Statutory authority for the CCBHC program will end in June 2019 unless Congress acts. </p> <p>“Your timely legislation would renew the CCBHC demonstration program in the original eight states (Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania) for two years and expand it to 11 additional states, enabling current patients to continue receiving comprehensive care, and increasing the number of individuals with access to vital services,” AHA said. </p> <p>The legislation was introduced in the House by Reps. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., and Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and in the Senate by Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.</p> Mon, 06 May 2019 15:02:26 -0500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) <p>AHA Special Bulletin that highlights the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' calendar year 2019 outpatient prospective payment system/ambulatory surgical center proposed rule.</p> Thu, 26 Jul 2018 14:23:23 -0500 Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs)