The month of March brought several significant new developments for the certified community behavioral health clinic (CCBHC) program. CCBHCs are outpatient safety-net behavioral health providers that, among a variety of program requirements, [...]
FTLF Partner Susannah Vance Gopalan will present at the American Association of Health and Human Services Attorneys (AAHHSA) 2022 Annual Education Conference in Columbus, OH, on October 11, 2022. Ms. Gopalan and [...]
On June 25, 2022, President Biden signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, Pub. L. No. 117-159. In addition to adding new gun control requirements, including measures relating to background checks [...]
Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) can contract with designated collaborating organizations (DCOs) to provide services they do not directly offer, including primary care screening and monitoring, targeted case management, psychiatric rehabilitation [...]
FTLF Partner, Susannah Vance Gopalan, was quoted in Mental Health Weekly on March 14. Susannah discussed her March 7 session during the National Council for Behavioral Health Conference in Las Vegas learned about [...]
Each CCBHC will have a unique rate that is based on its allowable costs established in a base year. The rate is defined as follows: Total annual allowable CCBHC costs _____________________________________ Total number [...]
Under a “Prospective Payment System” methodology, as that term is used in the Medicaid and Medicare programs, payment is made according to a predetermined, fixed amount per unit of service. Under some PPS systems, [...]
On April 1, 2014, Congress enacted the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) of 2014.[1] Section 223 of PAMA requires the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a process [...]
