Ohio Rebuilding Community Behavioral Health System Capacity

In this report released on April 27, 2015, the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) and the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) outlined the broad provisions of a plan to redesign the state's public behavioral health system to provide a continuum of services of varying intensities. One of the first projects will be aligning the billing codes used for outpatient community-based services to conform with national coding standards. The updated codes and redefined services are slated to go into effect by January 2016 . . .