March 14, 2023

OMH is working on two (2) OMH Outpatient Clinic guidance docs.  The first is a billing guidance document that is awaiting final sign off.  OMH hopes to issue this guidance document in 2 weeks.  The other is programmatic guidance (again, related to OMH Clinic) that should follow shortly after the billing guidance document goes out.

The U.S. government has announced that the Public Health Emergency (PH) will expire at the end of the day on May 11, 2023. On the date the PHE ends, the flexibilities afforded providers regarding minimum billing standards and documentation requirements will end, unless otherwise specified by OMH through formal regulatory waivers. 

The current OMH Commissioner’s waiver, which was last renewed on February 1, 2023 and contains the COVID-19-related flexibilities, will terminate on the same date as the PHE ends. 

Below is a link to a document that provides a summary of the areas impacted by the end of the PHE.

Link: https://omh.ny.gov/omhweb/guidance/impact-end-of-federal-phe-on-omh-system.pdf