Community Behavioral Health Ends Autism Acceptance Month with State Approval for Community Autism Peer Specialist Program
CBH CAPS Program Now a Medicaid Supplemental Service
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PHILADELPHIA, April 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Pennsylvania s Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) has approved the Community Autism Peer Specialist (CAPS) Program as a Medicaid Supplemental Service. The new approval will allow the CAPS program, developed initially with reinvestment funding, to be sustained over time as a Medicaid reimbursable service. Community Behavioral Health (CBH), a division of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS), launched the CAPS program as a pilot in 2019.