Michigan & Kentucky Now Participating In CCBHC Demonstration

On August 5, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced that Michigan and Kentucky have been selected to participate in the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program. There are now 10 states participating in the CCBHC demonstration. The eight initial states are Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.

The CCBHC demonstration program is a provision of the federal, bipartisan Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014. The eight states launched their CCBHC demonstrations in mid-2017 with 67 CCBHC . . .