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 9 required types of core 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 clients regardless of their catchment area and/or ability to pay, both within and outside of the clinic setting
Full descriptions of the 9 core services can be found in the CCBHC Scope of Services Manual or in the CCBHC MCO Operations Manual on pages 3-52.
SAMHSA has updated their CCBHC Certification Criteria and will be in effect July 1, 2024 (CCBHC Certification Criteria Updated March 2023). The CCBHC Scope of Services Manual will be updated accordingly to reflect those changes.
Additional information about the CCBHC demonstration can be found at The National Council for Mental Wellbeing.
Learn More about New York State’s CCBHC Program:New York States CCBHC Demonstration Timeline
Further questions about data, oversight, and document accessibility may be submitted to the NYS Office of Mental Health CCBHC Mailbox.