ActiveAtlas Opportunity Score 90/100
Texas HHSC Home and Community-Based Services — Adult Mental Health Open Enrollment HHS0016567
Texas HHSC is accepting provider applications through August 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT for the HCBS-AMH program, a statewide contract pathway serving adults with serious mental illness and histories of long-term psychiatric hospitalization, frequent arrest/crisis, or frequent emergency-department/crisis use.
FundingOpen-enrollment provider contract; Medicaid/service reimbursement pathway; no fixed grant award amount published
DeadlineAugust 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT
Last verifiedAugust 31, 2026
Required next actionQualified Texas behavioral-health organizations should review the HHS0016567 open-enrollment package and checklist, determine whether they are applying as an HCBS-AMH Provider Agency, Recovery Management Entity, or both, document organizational and service qualifications, complete all required HHSC forms, and plan for Texas Medicaid enrollment before referrals and reimbursement. Do not assume technology purchases are separately reimbursable without HHSC confirmation.
Broad Eligibility
Qualified organizations able to meet HHSC HCBS-AMH provider requirements and deliver the required community-based behavioral-health services. HHSC guidance recognizes Provider Agencies and Recovery Management Entities; approved applicants must complete required Medicaid enrollment before service delivery/reimbursement.
Atlas Analysis
A high-utility statewide behavioral-health contract pathway for organizations serving adults with serious mental illness and high-acuity utilization histories. Atlas Opportunity Score 90/100. N9+ Direct Vendor Fit 30/100 because the solicitation procures service delivery rather than standalone clinical technology; any N9+ role would require an awarded provider use case and explicit cost allowability.
Open enrollment is active. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is accepting applications under HHS0016567 to establish provider contracts for the Home and Community-Based Services — Adult Mental Health (HCBS-AMH) program.
Submission deadline: August 31, 2029 at 5:00 PM CDT. This is a long-duration open-enrollment contract pathway rather than a one-time competitive grant.
Who the program serves: adults with a diagnosis of serious mental illness who also have a history of at least one of the following: long-term psychiatric hospitalization, frequent arrests with psychiatric crisis, or frequent emergency-department visits with psychiatric crisis.
Provider pathway: HHSC uses HCBS-AMH provider agencies and recovery-management entities to deliver individualized community-based services intended to support long-term recovery and successful community tenure. HHSC provider guidance states that the same agency may apply for both provider-agency and recovery-management roles, subject to federal separation-of-function requirements for a participant. A Medicaid number is not required at the time of application, but approved providers must complete Texas Medicaid enrollment before service delivery and reimbursement.
Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. This is a durable statewide behavioral-health contracting lane with significant value for qualified provider organizations seeking to serve adults with high-acuity serious mental illness outside institutional settings.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 30/100. This procurement contracts for HCBS-AMH service delivery, not a standalone clinical-technology purchase. Atlas should not represent N9+ hardware or platform costs as directly fundable unless an awarded provider can document an allowable, contract-compliant role within approved services and HHSC confirms the cost treatment.
Official source: Texas HHS Open Enrollment HHS0016567.
Source verificationOfficial government source · resources.hhs.texas.govAtlas last verified this record August 31, 2026. Always use the funder's current application materials, amendments and portal instructions as the controlling source.View source and application materials ↗
