Topic Area: Systems & Planning

This is the New Mexico Medicaid Fee Schedule for Behavioral Health Providers effective January 1, 2025, establishing reimbursement rates that directly impact provider financial viability and service availability across the behavioral health system.

This is the New Mexico Department of Health's FY25-27 Strategic Plan, which establishes the state's public health priorities, organizational restructuring, and population health goals relevant to behavioral health systems planning including substance use treatment expansion, crisis services, and youth services infrastructure.

This community-driven assessment captures the voices of 173 Bernalillo County residents and service providers to inform a statewide Child and Family Services System Blueprint, documenting systemic barriers across six service sectors that directly impact behavioral health access and family stability.

This is a joint policy guidance document from the City of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, and Albuquerque Public Schools that establishes a coordinated framework for allocating approximately $150 million in opioid settlement funds over 15 years, providing a significant new funding stream for behavioral health systems change in the region.

The LOCUS (Level of Care Utilization System) is a standardized clinical assessment instrument that guides appropriate level of care placement decisions for adults with psychiatric and addiction needs, providing a common framework for systems to match individuals to the right intensity of behavioral health services.

This is the New Mexico Health Care Authority's Medicaid Behavioral Health Policy and Billing Manual (April 2025), which serves as the authoritative reference for covered services, provider requirements, and reimbursement procedures essential for behavioral health systems planning and service delivery across the state.

This document outlines the UNM Health Technical Assistance Center's menu of training and consultation services designed to support implementation of New Mexico's Behavioral Health Reform and Investment Act (Senate Bill 3), providing critical workforce development and systems planning resources for behavioral health transformation.

This SAMHSA publication provides standardized model definitions for behavioral health emergency, crisis, and crisis-related services to promote service quality, consistency, and payer adoption nationwide—critical for any jurisdiction building a coordinated crisis system.

This is SAMHSA's 2025 national framework establishing principles, essential service elements, and implementation guidance for building coordinated behavioral health crisis care systems—directly applicable to Bernalillo County's efforts to develop an integrated crisis response continuum.

This 2020 statewide behavioral health needs assessment provides comprehensive data on federal funding, population prevalence, Medicaid client diagnoses, treatment patterns, and geographic disparities across New Mexico—essential baseline data for informing systems change efforts in Bernalillo County and statewide.