SAMHSA Seeks Anonymous Clinic Data for Mental Health Tracking
Published Date: 6/30/2026
Notice
Summary
SAMHSA is collecting new data from clinics in its Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion program to see how well these clinics improve mental health care. Clinics will share anonymous client info during late 2025 and 2026 to help SAMHSA track progress and make services better. This effort affects clinics getting grants and aims to boost care quality without extra costs for patients.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
Clinics must upload de-identified EHR data
If your clinic is a CCBHC-Expansion grantee, you must upload de-identified client-level EHR data (including demographics and PHQ-9, C-SSRS, GAD-7, AUDIT, and DAST-10 scores). Uploads are required in Quarter 4, 2025 and again in Quarter 3, 2026. SAMHSA estimates 298 respondents will each submit 2 responses, at 8 hours per response (16 hours per grantee), for a total burden of 4,768 hours and an estimated total respondent cost of $281,645.76 (average hourly wage $59.07).
Evaluation to measure care quality and outcomes
SAMHSA will use the collected data to evaluate whether CCBHC-Expansion activities improve access, coordination, and quality of behavioral health care and affect client outcomes. The data are intended to let SAMHSA assess development, implementation, sustainment of CCBHCs and impacts of model adoption on client outcomes.
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