HHS Approves New Mexico’s Request to Expand Access to Critical Behavioral Health Services Through Mobile Crisis Intervention Teams

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services , through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services , today approved a proposal from New Mexico for community-based mobile crisis intervention teams to provide Medicaid crisis services. Today’s announcement is the latest in HHS’to support President Biden’s whole-of-government strategy to transform mental health services for all Americans — a key part of the President’s Unity Agenda.

“The Biden-Harris Administration has worked to make mental health and substance use crisis care more accessible to all Americans in need,” said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. “Expanding mobile crisis intervention teams across New Mexico will ensure more New Mexicans get the treatment they need when they need it, and I encourage other states to take similar steps.

Addressing the nation’s behavioral health crisis is a top priority of the Biden-Harris Administration. These mobile crisis intervention teams, comprised of trained behavioral health professionals and paraprofessionals, provide rapid response, individual assessment, stabilization, and de-escalation to people with Medicaid who are in need.

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