Ohio Medicaid Launching New Behavioral Health Coding & Billing On January 1, 2018

On June 19, 2017, the Ohio Governor’s Office of Health Transformation, the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) announced that the state was ready to launch new behavioral health coding and billing developed for its behavioral health redesign. As of January 1, 2018, ODM plans to carve behavioral health services into its Medicaid managed care plans. These changes also affect fee-for-service (FFS) and the MyCare Ohio duals demonstration plans. The redesign is intended to align the state’s billing codes for all Medicaid behavioral health services with . . .