NC S525

Department of Health and Human Services shall designate Critical Access Behavioral Health Agencies (CABHAs) as the only providers of Community Support Team, Intensive In-Home, and Child and Adolescent Day Treatment Medicaid services.

CABHAs must comply with North Carolina Chapter 122C mental health and substance abuse statutes, state administrative code chapters 21-25 and 27, Medicaid clinical coverage policies, and federal Medicaid regulations.

Each CABHA must provide comprehensive clinical assessment, medication management, outpatient therapy, and at least two additional services from a list including residential treatment, psychosocial rehabilitation, assertive community treatment, partial hospitalization, and opioid treatment.

CABHAs must employ a medical director (licensed MD), clinical director (licensed psychologist, clinical social worker, professional counselor, or equivalent provider), and quality management/training director with relevant experience.

Effective upon enactment on July 12, 2012.