Alabama Adds Medicaid Mobile Crisis Services

Alabama Medicaid is implementing a new state plan amendment (SPA) to provide mobile behavioral health crisis services. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved the SPA on November 20, 2023. The state anticipates that Medicaid reimbursement for mobile crisis services through the fee-for-service system will go live April 1, 2024.

The SPA approval allows Alabama to continue providing mobile crisis services which were initially funded in 2021 by a planning grant through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). The planning grant provided $953,336 for use over a 12-month period through September 29, 2022, to . . .