Behavioral Health Updates

Beacon Health Options of Pennsylvania – Monthly Provider Newsletter

November ValueAdded: Issue Highlights

• Keep Your Provider Information Current
• COVID-19 Provider Relief Funding
• Our Hermitage Office Mailing Address is Changing

And much more!

Beacon Health Options of Pennsylvania – Family Based Mental Health Services Request for Proposals (RFP)

Beacon Health Options of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Southwest Behavioral Health Management, and the Northwest Behavioral Health Partnership, have issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for:

Family Based Mental Health Services Serving Crawford, Mercer and Venango Counties’ HealthChoices Child/Adolescent Members

Click here to see the complete RFP: Family Based Mental Health Services.

Responses to this RFP must be received by 4:00 p.m. on December 27, 2021.

Community Behavioral Health (CBH) – Provider Bulletin 12-18: Place of Service 02 and Modifier 95 for Telehealth Service Delivery

CBH has released the Provider Bulletin: Place of Service 02 and Modifier 95 for Telehealth Service Delivery. This Bulletin is to inform providers that, with the issuance of the Department of Human Services, Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) Bulletin OMHSAS-21-09 titled “Guidelines for the Delivery of Behavioral Health Services Through Telehealth,” the Place of Service (POS) 02 Telehealth has been added along with the procedure code modifier 95 to denote when the service is provided by telephone only.

Effective January 1, 2022, providers who are billing for a telehealth service must include the POS 02 and append procedure code modifier 95 to the claim to indicate if the service was delivered via telephone or audio only.

Click here to view the full Bulletin.

Community Behavioral Health (CBH) – Provider Bulletin 12-17: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Code Change from 99201 to 99202

CBH has released the Provider Bulletin: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Code Change from 99201 to 99202. This Bulletin is to inform providers that OMHSAS has revised and published its Behavioral Health Services Reporting Classification Chart (BHSRCC), which eliminates the use of CPT code 99201. This change is mandatory; therefore, CBH will retire CPT code 99201 effective December 29, 2021.

For dates of service on or after December 30, 2021, CBH will replace 99201 with 99202. CBH will revise and release updated provider contracts (Schedule A) reflecting the change in coding.

Click here to view the Bulletin.

Community Behavioral Health (CBH) – CBH American Sign Language Interpretation Request for Proposals Updated Schedule and Q&A

CBH has released an updated schedule with revised deadlines for the American Sign Language Interpretation RFP and the RFP Q&A.

Click here to view the updated schedule.

Click here to view the full Q&A.

Community Behavioral Health (CBH) – CBH Non-English Language Interpretation Request for Proposals Updated Schedule and Q&A

CBH has released an updated schedule with revised deadlines for the Non-English Language Interpretation RFP and the RFP Q&A.

Click here to view the updated schedule.

Click here to view the full Q&A.

PerformCare – Provider Notice: New Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) Notices Now Online

The following intensive behavioral health services (IBHS) notices are now online on PerformCare’s website:

• IBHS 21 106: Adding or Increasing IBHS During a Current IBHS Authorization Period (PDF)
• IBHS 21 107: IBHS Update: Temporary OMHSAS Regulation Suspensions End 9/30/21 (PDF)

PerformCare – Information for Providers on Managing Members with Suicidal Thinking

Every other month, PerformCare is sharing memos dedicated to helping you assess, treat, and manage clients with suicidal thinking. For November, PerformCare would like to outline the importance of thoroughly formulating risk and protective factors and developing a sound crisis response.

Learn more in Information for Providers on Managing Clients with Suicidal Thinking: Memo #2 (PDF).

Read both memos and get more information on suicide prevention awareness on PerformCare’s website.

PerformCare – Withdrawal Management Notification Process Review Training Webinar

PerformCare’s Withdrawal Management Notification Process Review webinar is now online.

You can find this webinar and other training presentations on PerformCare’s website.

Community Care Behavioral Health (CCBH) – Provider Alert #26: Provider Rate Setting

Please see Provider Alert below in addition to the policy that corresponds for all contracts except for the Northeast.