Ohio 2016 & 2017 Budget Proposal To Rebuild Community Behavioral Health System Capacity

In this document released in February 2015, the Ohio Office of Health Transformation outlined its plans to redesign the Medicaid community behavioral health benefit. The redesign plans call for redefining current behavioral health services and codes to align with national standards and to support integrated behavioral and physical health services. The goal is to align services according to a person’s acuity level and need. The redesign will result in disaggregating community psychiatric supportive treatment, case management, and health home services, which will functionally cancel the current behavioral health home program . . .