Maryland DHMH Behavioral Health Integration Workgroup Presentation: Fiscal Impact Of The Behavioral Health Integration Model

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), Medicaid, Office of Health Services is merging the Mental Hygiene Administration and the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration into a new Behavioral Health Administration. This document explains what DHMH expects to achieve by integrating the two systems, in particular how Medicaid financed services will be affected. The document discusses the role of the behavioral health administrative services organization (ASO), which will administer specialty Medicaid mental health and addiction treatment services carved-out of the physical health Medicaid managed care organization contracts; the ASO will also administer non-Medicaid mental health and . . .