Georgia HOPE Gains First NCQA Level 3 Recognition As Behavioral Health Patient-Centered Specialty Practice

On February 1, 2016, Amerigroup Community Care announced that its network provider organization, Georgia HOPE, had earned recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the first level three Patient Centered Specialty Practice (PCSP) for behavioral health in the United States. Georgia HOPE provides in-home and community-based mental health and addiction counseling to children and adults in 14 counties in Northwest Georgia. The PSCP program stems from the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) concept and shares many of the core components, but is geared toward specialists rather than primary care practices (PCPs). As a PCSP, Georgia . . .