Promoting the Success and Sustainability of Coordinated Specialty Care Teams in Ohio.
Breitborde NJK., Parris CJ., Stearns WH., Nawaz S., Seiber E., Hamilton S., Hefner J., Hogan TH., Singh P., Knudsen K., Martt N., Srihari VH., Cahill J., Jani A., Anagbonu F., Baughman C., Carpenter KM., Dunivant CN., Dunlap N., Guirgis H., Lazarus S., Moe A., Nguyen C., Wastler H., Montesano V.
Recent COVID-19-related federal legislation has resulted in time-limited increases in Mental Health Block Grant (MHBG) set-aside dollars for coordinated specialty care (CSC) throughout the United States. The state of Ohio has opted to apply these funds to establish a learning health network of Ohio CSC teams, promote efforts to expand access to CSC, and quantify the operating costs and rates of reimbursement from private and public payers for these CSC teams. These efforts may provide other states with a model through which they can apply increased MHBG funds to support the success of their own CSC programs.