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Glossary of CCBHC-Related Quality Measures and Acronyms 

Table 1 - BHC Reported Measuresa 

Technical Specification Name Acronym

Routine Care Needs (Percent of new consumers requesting services who 

were determined to need routine care)

ROUT

Time to Initial Evaluation (Percent of new consumers with initial 

evaluation provided within 10 business days, and mean number of 

days until initial evaluation for new clients)*

I-EVAL

Time to Comprehensive Person-Centered and Family-Centered 

Diagnostic and Treatment Planning Evaluation (Mean number of days 

before the comprehensive evaluation is performed for new consumers)

TX-EVAL

Deaths by Suicide SUIC

Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record DOC

Preventive Care & Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening & 

Follow-Up*

BMI-SF

Weight Assessment for Children/Adolescents: Body Mass Index 

Assessment for Children/Adolescents*

WCC-BH

Controlling High Blood Pressure CBP-BH

Preventive Care & Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening & Cessation 

Intervention*

TSC

Preventive Care & Screening: Unhealthy Alcohol Use: Screening & 

Brief Counseling*

ASC

Child and Adolescent Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Suicide 

Risk Assessment*

SRA-BH-C

Adult Major Depressive Disorder (MDD): Suicide Risk 

Assessment*

SRA-A

Screening for Clinical Depression and Follow-Up Plan* CDF-BH

Depression Remission at Twelve Months* DEP-REM-12 a SAMHSA, Metrics and Quality Measures for Behavioral Health Clinics Technical Specifications and 

Resource Manual, https://www.samhsa.gov/section-223/quality-measures

* Denotes 1 of the 9 required measures to be reported by the CCBHCs as part of the CCBHC 

demonstration program. 

Table 2 - State Reported Measuresa, b

Measure or Other Reporting Requirement Acronym

Housing Status * HOU

Suicide Attempts SU-A

Patient Experience of Care Survey and Youth/Family Experience of 

Care Survey*

PEC & Y/FEC

(sometimes 

referred to as 

MHSIP)
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Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visit for Mental Health, and 

Follow-Up After Emergency Department Visit for Alcohol or Other 

Dependence*

FUM & FUA

Plan All-Cause Readmissions Rate* PCR-BH

Diabetes Screening for People with Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder 

Who Are Using Antipsychotic Medications*

SSD

Diabetes Care for People with Serious Mental Illness: Hemoglobin A1c 

(HbA1c) Poor Control (>9.0%)

SMI-PC

Metabolic Monitoring for Children and Adolescents on Antipsychotics APM

Cardiovascular Monitoring for People with Cardiovascular Disease and 

Schizophrenia

SMC

Adherence to Mood Stabilizers for Individuals with Bipolar I Disorder AMS-BD

Adherence to Antipsychotic Medications for Individuals with 

Schizophrenia*

SAA-BH

Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness, Adult* FUH-BH-A

Follow-Up After Hospitalization for Mental Illness, Child/Adolescent* FUH-BH-C

Follow-Up Care for Children Prescribed ADHD Medication* ADD-BH

Antidepressant Medication Management* AMM-BH

Initiation and Engagement of Alcohol and Other Drug Dependence 

Treatment*

IET-BH

a SAMHSA, Metrics and Quality Measures for Behavioral Health Clinics Technical Specifications and 

Resource Manual, https://www.samhsa.gov/section-223/quality-measures

b

 The measure Cardiovascular Health Screening for People With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder 

Who Are Prescribed Antipsychotic Medications (NQF #1927) was dropped from the BHC specifications 

as it is no longer in accordance with treatment guidelines (https://www.samhsa.gov/section-223/qualitymeasures).

* Denotes 1 of the 11 required measures to be reported by the states as part of the CCBHC 

demonstration.