California Medicaid RFI Seeks Information For Behavioral Health Community-Based Centers Of Excellence For BH-Connect

The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) is gathering information from stakeholders to use when establishing one or more Centers of Excellence for its Medicaid Behavioral Health Community-Based Organized Networks of Equitable Care and Treatment (BH-CONNECT) demonstration. To obtain the information, DHCS released a request for information (RFI 23-070) on January 31, 2024, with responses due by March 1, 2024.

The Center(s) of Excellence will provide training, technical assistance, and fidelity monitoring for Medi-Cal specialty behavioral health provider organizations and county behavioral health plans to implement assisted community treatment (ACT), forensic ACT (FACT), coordinated . . .