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This bill makes permanent the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics program and expands it to cover more patients and services. Specifically, it establishes these clinics as a covered service under both Medicaid and Medicare starting January 1, 2024, allowing states to reimburse clinics for providing comprehensive mental health and substance use services like crisis intervention, outpatient counseling, peer support, and care coordination. The legislation creates a payment system for these services under both programs, with Medicaid allowing states flexibility in how they reimburse clinics while Medicare will develop a national prospective payment rate. The bill also authorizes $552.5 million annually through 2028 in federal operating grants to help clinics provide their full range of services, plus additional funding of $6 million per year for technical assistance and $51 million per year to establish a data reporting system. The changes primarily benefit individuals with mental health and substance use disorders who receive care at certified community behavioral health clinics, as well as the clinics themselves by providing stable, permanent funding sources instead of relying on temporary demonstration programs.

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