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Rhode Island is shifting its behavioral health system to a new payment model to improve care.

The new system pays for overall client outcomes rather than individual billable services.

Clinics face challenges balancing old reporting requirements with new outcome-based tracking.

Rhode Island is actively transforming its behavioral health system by adopting the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) model and implementing the Prospective Payment System (PPS). This payment approach moves away from the limitations of fee-for-service, which only reimburses for coded, billable services and often leaves essential outreach and wraparound care uncoded and therefore unfunded.

Through the PPS, Rhode Island aims to provide bundle

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