May 29, 2025
Feldesman Partners Kathy Ghiladi and Adam J. Falcone will speak at the Community Behavioral Health Association of Maryland’s (CBH) Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 29, 2025, in Columbia, MD. Ms. Ghiladi will [...]
March 28, 2024
One of the comprehensive funding bills for the federal government enacted in recent weeks, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2024 (Pub. L. No. 118-122), contains a provision that creates a permanent State plan [...]
February 21, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued updated guidance on implementing Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs). This revised CMS guidance aligns with [...]
April 3, 2023
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, [...]
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July 5, 2022
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 [...]
May 19, 2016
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 [...]
February 25, 2016
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 [...]
February 25, 2016
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, [...]
February 25, 2016
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 [...]
