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Utilization Management Guidelines & Manual for Texas behavioral health providers

Uniform transportation standards for behavioral health providers in Texas

This website is meant to assist interested service providers in negotiating the application process to become part of a local provider network. The networks developed through this process don't serve people covered by Medicaid Managed Care. On this website, HHSC provides: Links to TRR and other important information. Minimum service requirements. Service capacity information for each local service area. A mechanism for providers to indicate their interest (see LPND Information for Potential Providers) and the resulting list of interested providers.

Community mental health services are provided through Local Mental Health Authorities/Local Behavioral Health Authorities, also referred to as community mental health centers.

A list of HCBS frequently asked questions.

Learn more about the open enrollment process to become an HCBS-AMH Provider.

Home and Community-Based Services-Adult Mental Health is a program that provides home and community-based services to adults with serious mental illness. This page lists resources for HCBS providers.

Psychiatric services are provided to violent sexual predators so incapacitated by symptoms of their mental illness that they are unable to effectively participate in sex offender treatment as a term of their civil commitment to the Texas Civil Commitment Center.

Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams provide face-to-face help to people who are at risk of harm to themselves or others. The MCOT provides counseling services to people at their home, school or other location. The services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Mental Health Deputy programs help improve the crisis response system by diverting people in need of behavioral health crisis services from hospitals and jails to community-based alternatives that provide effective behavioral health treatment at less cost.

Information for providers of inpatient psychiatric beds

Crisis units are facilities designed to treat an individual's symptoms of mental illness in the community.

A hotline is continuously available phone service operated by trained and competent crisis staff that provides information, screening and intervention, support, and referrals to callers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 

Mental heatlh crisis services are available 24 hours, seven days a week and include: prompt face-to-face crisis assessment, crisis intervention services, crisis follow-up, and relapse prevention services

Information about the Clinical Management for Behavioral Health Services (CMBS) system for providers.