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criteria for the Demonstration Program to Improve Community Mental Health Centers and to Establish Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Table of Contents .. 1 Structure of the criteria .. 3 .. 3 Program Requirement 1: STAFFING .. 9 Program Requirement 2: AVAILABILITY AND ACCESSIBILITY OF Program Requirement 3: CARE COORDINATION .. 22 Program Requirement 4: SCOPE OF services .. 33 Program Requirement 5: QUALITY AND OTHER REPORTING .. 53 Program Requirement 6: ORGANIZATIONAL AUTHORITY, GOVERANCE AND ACCREDITATION .. 57 .. 61 UPDATED Appendix A: Quality Measures and Other Reporting Requirements .. 63 1 Introduction On April 1, 2014, the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (hereinafter PAMA or the statute ) was signed into law. Among other things, PAMA requires the establishment of demonstration programs to improve community behavioral Health services , to be funded as part of Medicaid (PAMA, 223). PAMA specifies criteria for certified community behavioral Health clinics to participate in demonstration programs.

written public comments, and solicitation for public response on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) website. 3 The criteria are intended to extend quality and to improve outcomes of the behavioral health care system within the authorities of state regulations, statutes and state Medicaid Plans.

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