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
CCBHCs 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.
Full descriptions of the nine required services can be found in the CCBHC Provider Manual or in the CCBHC MCO Operations Manual on pages 3-52.
Additional information about the CCBHC demonstration can be found at:
Learn More about New York State’s CCBHC Program:Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) | SAMHSA
New York States CCBHC Demonstration Timeline
Further questions may be submitted to the NYS Office of Mental Health CCBHC Mailbox.