Behavioral Health Providers

The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership (MBHP) manages behavioral health care for more than 430,000 MassHealth Members statewide.  Working with its network of more than 1,200 providers, MBHP offers high quality, accessible, culturally sensitive health care to Members in the MassHealth Primary Care Clinician (PCC) Plan, Community Care Cooperative (C3), Steward Health Choice, BeHealthy Partnership, children in state custody, and certain children enrolled in MassHealth who have commercial insurance as their primary insurance.

Getting Started

Here's what you, as a behavioral health provider, need to know about becoming part of the MBHP network, how to access provider-only web content, and get answers to frequently asked questions. more >

Provider Information

This section provides you with everything from our most recent Provider Alerts to our Provider Manual, performance specifications, claims submission and service authorization tools, and more. more >

Children's Behavioral Health Initiative

The Children's Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI) offers a set of six comprehensive behavioral health services for youth under the age of 21 and their families.  MBHP hosts a wide variety of CBHI content. more >

Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs)/Mobile Crisis Intervention (MCI)

CBHCs will serve as an entry point for timely, high-quality mental health and substance use disorder (SUD) treatment on an urgent and ongoing basis. CBHCs will integrate crisis and community-based treatment by combining mobile teams, crisis stabilization, and care coordination. A distinct feature will be 7-day-per-week access including walk-in capacity, psycho-pharmacology, and treatment options including services and interventions for mental health, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.
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Find a Provider

The MBHP network has more than 1,200 behavioral health providers statewide.  Many of our providers speak multiple languages, and they all share a commitment to providing high quality, culturally sensitive care.  Services offered range from detox, to crisis counseling, to long-term therapy. more >

Integrated Care Management Program

The Integrated Care Management Program (ICMP) is an enhanced care management program offered to PCC Plan Members with complex medical, mental health, and/or substance use disorders.  The ICMP accepts referrals from all provider types, as well as self-referrals. more >

MassHealth Info and Other Important Contacts

MBHP works in partnership with MassHealth to provide high quality, integrated medical and behavioral health care.  Contact information for MassHealth and our other partners can be found here. more >

Quality Management Program

The MBHP Quality Management (QM) Program serves as a unifying structure for all quality management activities across all departments and ensures and improves the quality of service provided to Members. more >

Resources

MBHP offers our providers and primary care clinicians access to a broad range of health education materials, reports, tool kits, and linkages to resources to support health care integration. more >

Events and Trainings

MBHP sponsors forums and training programs that address topics such as integration of medical and behavioral health care, practice management strategies, and rehabilitation and recovery. Whenever possible, continuing education credits are made available to licensed providers. more >