Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC)
What is a CCBHC?
The purpose of a CCBHC is to:
- Help people improve their health by making it easier to get into treatment
- Keep people from going into the hospital when they don’t need hospital care
- Build better relationships between hospitals and community health care providers
- Pay community providers working in underserved areas more money through enhanced Medicaid payments
- Blend mental health, substance use disorder, and physical health treatment services
These clinics must directly provide or contract with Designated Collaborating Organizations (DCOs) to provide nine types of required services:
- Crisis mental health services including 24-hour mobile crisis teams, emergency crisis intervention, and crisis stabilization**
- Screening, assessment, and diagnosis including risk assessment*
- Patient-Centered treatment planning or similar processes, including risk assessment and crisis planning*
- Outpatient mental health and substance use services*
- Outpatient clinic primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators and health risk**
- Targeted case management**
- Psychiatric rehabilitation services**
- Peer support, counselor services, and family support services**
- Intensive community-based mental health care for members of the armed forces & veterans**
*CCBHC must directly provide
**May be provided by CCBHC and/or DCO
CCBHC demonstration services must be provided to all individuals regardless of their service area and/or ability to pay, both within and outside of the clinic setting.
Updated Guidance:
Additional information about the demonstration:
CCBHC Data Sharing with Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) (pending update)
CCBHC MCO Operations Manual (pending update)
CCBHC Prospective Payment System (PPS) (pending update)
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics | SAMHSA
The National Council for Mental Wellbeing
Further questions may be submitted to the NYS Office of Mental Health CCBHC Mailbox.