California Medicaid Behavioral Health Treatment Transition Plan Rollout Schedule

In this document released on February 1, 2016, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) presented its six-month timeline for transitioning Medicaid behavioral health treatment (BHT) services (including applied behavior analysis) for beneficiaries diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the Regional Centers to Medicaid managed care plans or to the Medicaid fee-for-service system. The transition is one of the provisions of a recently approved California state plan amendment to include BHT services as a covered Medi–Cal service for youth and young adults under age 21 diagnosed with ASD. The federal Centers for Medicare &amp . . .