Mental Health Plan (MHP) Fee-for-Service (FFS) Providers

Mental Health Plan Providers Needed
ACBH has an immediate need for qualified individual providers/practitioners to provide outpatient eating disorder treatment and individual providers/practitioners who have certain language capacity and/or have an outpatient office in South County or the Tri-Valley areas of Alameda County, to provide services to children, youth, and adults who are eligible for mental health benefits under Alameda County’s Mental Health Plan.

Please see the attached announcements for details.

• Mental Health Provider – Language and/or Location
• Mental Health Provider – Eating Disorder Treatment

Who are MHP FFS Providers?
The MHP FFS Providers are a pool of mental health providers/practitioners who contract with Alameda County BHCS to provide outpatient mental health services to children and adults; providers/practitioners such as:

• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors;
• Licensed Clinical Social Workers;
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists;
• Licensed Clinical Psychologists;
  and
• Physicians

Who is the target population of the MHP FFS Providers?
MHP FFS Providers serve Alameda County children and adult residents who are eligible for mental health benefits under Medi-Cal and other funding streams in Alameda County’s mental health plan. Individuals served are experiencing moderate-to-severe mental illnesses that meet medical necessity for specialty mental health services.

Announcements  

• Memo To FFS Providers: Recorded Trainings and Live Virtual Meeting to Address Changes to FFS Outpatient Therapy Level of Care
  Please review the memo to FFS Providers. Click here to view the training presentation slides.

  This training series consists of two pre-recorded trainings focused on the upcoming changes to the ACBH FFS outpatient therapy level of care. Each video is approximately 30 minutes.

  • The first video includes an overview of the changes along with information from Contracts, ACCESS and Insurance Verification information.
  • The second video includes information from Quality Assurance, Utilization Management and the Claims Processing Center.

Forms  

• MHP FFS Provider Handbook
• MHP FFS Provider Handbook Appendices
• Provider Update Form – Use this form to updated BHCS of changes such as:
  • your location/address
  • email, phone, or fax
  • name
  • a change to status with any licensing/oversight board that may impact your ability to provide, claim or be reimbursed for specialty mental health services
• Voluntary Disenrollment Form – Use this form to voluntarily dis-enroll from the MHP FFS Providers

FAQs  

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