Assistance program
Innovation In Behavioral Health
-$30.2 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 93.610
- What it does
- The CMS Innovation Center is announcing a new NOFO focusing on improving the quality of care for people with behavioral health needs.
- Who benefits
- The IBH Model will include adult Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries (including dually eligible individuals) who receive care for moderate to severe mental health conditions and/or SUD in a community-based setting. The IBH Model will not include or exclude beneficiaries solely based on diagnosis. All adult beneficiaries receiving care from eligible Practice Participants identified using claims analysis will be eligible for the Model, regardless of their specific BH diagnoses. Recipients should encourage Practice Participants to educate beneficiaries regarding IBH services and develop standardized practices to determine their need for IBH care delivery framework services.
- Who applies
- Eligible applicants are all 50 states, Washington DC, and territories. Eligible U.S. territories include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands.
- Authorized by
- Social Security Act, section 1115A Section 1115A of the Social Security Act (the Act) establishes CMMI to test innovative health care payment and service delivery models that have the potential to lower Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP spending while maintaining or improving the qual…
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* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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