Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) are a new provider type in Medicaid, designed to provide a comprehensive range of mental health and substance use disorder services to vulnerable individuals.

CCBHCs are responsible for directly providing (or contracting with partner organizations to provide) nine types of services, with an emphasis on the provision of 24-hour crisis care, utilization of evidence-based practices, care coordination and integration with physical health care.

A CCBHC "closes the loop" across the spectrum of health services, including physical and behavioral health and other social services via CARE COORDINATION.

1. Crisis mental health and addiction services.

2. Screening, assessment and diagnosis, including risk assessment.

3. Person and Family-centered treatment planning.

4. Direct provision of outpatient MH and SUD services.

5. Outpatient primary care screening and monitoring of key health indicators and health risk.

6. Targeted case management.

7. Psychiatric rehabilitation services.

8. Peer support and counselor services and family supports.

9. Intensive, community-based mental health care for members of the armed forces and veterans, particularly those in rural areas.

• Demonstrates the organization’s commitment to quality and safety.

• Provides a management outline for leadership for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services and Co-occurring disorders.

• Supports a culture of excellence.

• Supports the integration of behavioral health with physical health.

• Supports the use of evidenced based practice data to improve care, treatment and services to the individual and population served.

• Widely respected as a mark of distinction by payers and referral persons receiving service.

• Aligns the organization with the health care community.

• Supports person-centered, whole-person care.