Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Services

What is a CCBHC?

A CCBHC is a non-profit or local government agency that provides comprehensive and coordinated behavioral health services to individuals, regardless of their insurance, ability to pay, place of residence, or age. CCBHCs aim to combine high quality mental health and substance use disorder services working with individuals’ primary care doctors and other providers to ensure individuals get the best care.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is managing the CCBHC demonstration directly, get more information from MDHHS by following this link- CCBHC Demonstration.

What are the benefits of the CCBHC?

CCBHCs are held to a high standard of care. They must:

• Provide quick access to care
• Offer services to anyone who asks, no matter your ability to pay or where you live
• Offer 24/7 mobile crisis response
• Use a specific set of evidence-based (proven or expected) practices
• Offer Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for addiction
• Meet strict care standards

CCBHCs must offer nine core services to qualifying individuals:

1. Crisis mental health services: 24-hour mobile crisis teams, emergency crisis intervention services, and crisis stabilization
2. Screening, assessment, and diagnosis
3. Patient-centered treatment planning or like processes, including risk assessment and crisis planning
4. Outpatient mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) services
5. Outpatient clinic primary care screening, including review of key health indicators and health risks
6. Targeted case management
7. Psychiatric rehabilitation services
8. Peer support, counselor services, and family supports
9. Intensive, community-based mental health care for members of the armed forces and veterans, particularly those members and veterans located in rural areas

For a complete list of CCBHC Demonstration Service Encounter Codes follow this link- CCBHC Demonstration.

Designated Collaborating Organizations

• CCBHCs must provide all nine core services either directly or through sub-contracted providers; Sub-contracted providers under the CCBHC demonstration are called designated collaborating organizations (DCOs).
• DCOs can provide any of the nine core services and are treated as a “direct extension” of the CCBHC. DCOs are held to the same reporting and clinical standards as the CCBHC.
• CCBHCs who contract with DCOs must provide 51% of services themselves.

Who is eligible for CCBHC services?

• Anyone with a mental health or substance use diagnosis, regardless of ability to pay, place of residence, or age is eligible for the nine core services when they are medically necessary.
• A mental health or SUD diagnosis does not need to be the primary diagnosis.
• For a complete list of eligible diagnosis get more information from MDHHS by following this link- CCBHC Demonstration.

CCBHC demonstration sites within the SWMBH Region:

Barry County Community Mental Health Authority

Berrien County Community Mental Health Authority DBA Riverwood Center

Branch County Community Mental Health Authority DBA Pines Behavioral Health

Calhoun County Community Mental Health Authority DBA Summit Pointe

Integrated Services of Kalamazoo County

Community Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services of St. Joseph County DBA Pivotal

Van Buren County Community Mental Health

Information regarding additional sites across Michigan can be accessed by following this link CCBHC Demonstration.

References:

Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) | SAMHSA

CCBHC Demonstration