Notice to all CMHPSM Grant Providers

All budget amendments for FY26 Grants are due no later than Friday 7/17/26. Please submit amended budget files to finance@cmhpsm.org and make sure to summarize all requested changes in the body of the email. 

All SUD FFS Billing Specialists

Please be sure to follow up with our CMHPSM claims processor on any non-Medicaid clients returned to you during claims processing and identified as having third party commercial insurance. It is important that once insurance is verified at the provider level, CMHPSM is notified of the eligibility verification with supporting documentation. This helps us keep and maintain accurate records within the consumer chart in CRCT. Please remember that as a Medicaid payer we are a payer of last resort. 

Please note the recent revisions in SUD Administrative rules. From an email from LARA received 6/10/26- “On June 3, 2026 revised Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Administrative Rules became effective. The most significant change with these revised SUD rules is that Outpatient is no longer a licensed service category for an SUD program license. The SUD service categories of CAIT (prevention), Methadone, Mobile Units (Methadone only), Residential, Residential Withdrawal Management (clinically-managed or medically monitored), and Inpatient Hospitalization remain for licensure.”

CMHPSM and other PIHPs in Michigan are awaiting guidance from MDHHS on how these changes will further impact SUD programs and services. Please be on the lookout for any updates or additional information. We’ll be sure to provide updates as soon as we can.

It’s hard to believe that we already in Quarter 3 of our fiscal year – time flies! The CMHPSM Quality Team has put together a report on how we have progressed on the FY2026 QAPIP Plan thus far, including Quarter 1 (October-December) and Quarter 2 (January-March) data. Each year, the CMHPSM team presents this report to the Regional CMHPSM Board; this year, it is also available to anyone who would like to view it on our website, summarizing how the region and all of its providers have been working to improve quality and care outcomes. These measures address:

Access to care:

Who is getting services?

How efficiently (time and effort) are we getting people in the door to have their needs addressed?

What barriers are there to getting services?

What can we address to make getting services easier?

Care provision:

What clinical guidelines do we use to provide our services, and how do we determine best practices?

How are we identifying and serving vulnerable individuals?

How are we making sure our providers are qualified, safe, skilled, and effective?

How are we addressing serious incidents or events that pose risks to the individuals we serve or to our providers?

How are we verifying that the care we authorize is being competently given?

How can we better address the needs of diverse individuals?

How are we ensuring compliance with governing laws, policies, and regulations?

Satisfaction with care:

How do the individuals we serve feel about the care they receive?

How are we getting input from the individuals and communities we serve?

How well are we communicating with the individuals we serve?

What kinds of problems are individuals reporting with their care?

How quickly and effectively are we resolving those problems?

Care outcomes:

Are we getting people what they need: the right services, at the right time, at the right level of care, and for the right duration?

When we deny services, are we making those decisions correctly and communicating them quickly and effectively?

How are we addressing care for individuals who need long-term support?

Are we seeing changes in our population over time?

Are we seeing decreases in restrictive settings and interventions and increases in health and autonomy?

Some measures have quarterly benchmarks; some have action steps to meet rather than benchmarks; some experience lag in data from outside sources; some are due or evaluated only once per year.

Of the 78 measures we tracked for Quarter 1 and Quarter 2:

CMHPSM’s Health Accessibility Team (HAT) is tasked with sharing resources promoting health accessibility strategies and practices to support populations disproportionately impacted by rates of overdose, substance use disorder, and access to services.

Trainings Courses & Webinars:

• Co-Occurring Disorders/Integrated Dual Disorder Treatment 101 Basic Introduction
  • REGISTER NOW for this upcoming, in-person training opportunity available from CMHA to be held August 27^th & 28^th in Ann Arbor, MI
  • Who Should Attend? | This event is sponsored by the adult mental health block grant and is intended for persons who serve adults only struggling with severe mental illness and/or COD receiving services that are community-based/outpatient setting (does not include SUD providers, inpatient, or residential treatment) that is funded by a CMHSP or is a contractor of a CMHSP in the state of Michigan.
  • View the training brochure for more information

Health Disparities in Substance Use Disorder

• Free, 1-hour, online course from American Society of Addiction Medicine focused on exploring the ways in which certain populations are disproportionately affected by substance use disorders and the various factors that contribute to these health disparities. Continuing education credits are available.
• Click here to learn more & register

• Setting the Stage: Racism in the History of Substance Use and Addiction
  • Free, 1-hour, online course from American Society of Addiction Medicine focusing on health disparities in substance use and the causes therein, with a special emphasis on racially oppressive values that are harmful to racial and ethnic minoritized populations. Continuing education credits are available.
  • Click here to learn more & register

Data & Other Resources:

• 2025 CMHPSM Community Survey Data Report
• Stigma Reduction – Resource available from OPEN at University of Michigan including videos, downloadable brochures, language guides, and more!
• Checklist: Working Effectively with an Interpreter
• Guide: Ensuring Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Crisis Communication 
• Equitable and Accessible Data-Sharing Guide