Massachusetts Selects Behavioral Health & Long-Term Services & Supports Community Partners For Medicaid ACOs

On December 19, 2022, the Massachusetts Medicaid program (MassHealth) selected 20 organizations to be Community Partners for MassHealth accountable care organizations (ACOs). These organizations are a pool of qualified vendors that the MassHealth ACOs and managed care organizations (MCOs) can contract with to support MassHealth members with significant behavioral health and complex long-term services and supports (LTSS) needs. Specifically, the Community Partners provide care coordination for Medicaid beneficiaries (ages 18 to 64) with prominent behavioral health and/or members aged 3 to 64 with LTSS needs to help these beneficiaries navigate the state’s behavioral health and LTSS systems . . .