Molina Healthcare covers outpatient and inpatient behavioral health treatment services with licensed mental health and substance use disorder specialists.
You may self-refer for an initial evaluation and outpatient behavioral health services or visit your Primary Care Provider (PCP). Your PCP may treat some behavioral health conditions such as depression or excessive alcohol use.
Crisis services are available for members having a mental health emergency.
Mental health treatment services may include:
- Initial evaluation and specialty follow-up evaluations as needed*
- Individual, group and/or family treatment services*
- Other outpatient services such as:
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- Medication management/monitoring*
- Peer support*
- Program of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
- Psychological assessment*
- Wraparound with Intensive Services (WISe)*
- Visit the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) for more information on WISe
- To Find a Child or Adolescent focused provider, go to Provider Online Directory ,and on filters under provider expertise, select “Children” or “Adolescents.”
- To find information about Applied Behavioral Analysis Therapy
- Day Support* (typically provided in community mental health agencies, clubhouses or community centers. Intensive rehabilitative program which provides a range of integrated and varied life skills training).
- Crisis stabilization in outpatient or inpatient settings*
- Mental health intensive residential treatment*
- Acute psychiatric inpatient admissions to community hospitals, free standing behavioral health facilities or Evaluation and Treatment (E&T) facilities*
Substance use disorder treatment services may include:
- Initial evaluation and specialty follow-up evaluation as needed*
- Individual, group and/or family treatment services*
- Other outpatient services such as peer support*, case management*
- Intensive outpatient programs (IOP)*
- Opiate use disorder treatment program services that include medications and/or therapy services*
- Withdrawal management (detoxification)*
- Substance use disorder intensive residential treatment, long term residential treatment and recovery house residential treatment*
*Indicates services that are contracted to serve youth and children. For opiate use disorder and detoxification services, youth are served when clinically appropriate.
Note: As of January 1, 2018, the following are covered:
- Annual depression screening for youth ages twelve (12) to eighteen (18), and up to age twenty (20) per EPSDT requirements
- Depression screening for mothers/caregivers of children up to six months old
To see a detailed list of covered behavioral health services, view your Benefits at a Glance and search for “mental health services” and “drug and alcohol treatment”.
How to find a behavioral health provider
You can go to our Find a Provider page and follow these easy steps:
- Select your city or enter zip code
- "Distance Within" - Select miles of how far you want to travel
- "Coverage" - select "Apple Health Medicaid"
- "Provder Type" - select "Behavioral Health" or "Behavioral Health-Pediatric”
- Click "Search"
How do members get care?
Call Member Services if you need help getting behavioral health services. We can help you get the care you need.
How to access HCA's "Family Initiated Treatment" pages
Family initiated treatment (FIT) provides families and behavioral health providers with a way to access services needed for behavioral health youth treatment. The behavioral health provider page now includes information on eligibility, training, and notifications.
To learn more: