Sep 12, 2022
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Medicaid & CHIP

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced approval of the Oregon Health Authority’s proposal to cover community-based mobile crisis intervention services in Medicaid. Made possible by President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, the new first-in-the-nation Medicaid State plan amendment will allow Oregon to provide community-based stabilization services to individuals experiencing mental health and/or substance use crises throughout the state by connecting them to a behavioral health specialist 24 hours per day, every day of the year.

https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/hhs-approves-nations-first-medicaid-mobile-crisis-intervention-services-program-be-launched-oregon