On July 1, 2026, Colorado's CoBHRM consolidated five legacy behavioral health data sets into one client-centric model submitted through TMS. Here is what it replaced, what providers submit now, and how to make the reporting a byproduct of clinical work.
Colorado just changed how behavioral health data gets reported. On July 1, 2026, the Colorado Behavioral Health Reporting Model — CoBHRM — went live, replacing five separate legacy data sets with one client-centric model. If you report to the state, this is the biggest change to your reporting workflow in years. Here is what it replaced and what you submit now. For the market context, see the Colorado CoBHRM guide.
Before CoBHRM, Colorado providers filed multiple separate reporting data sets, often duplicating information for clients with both mental health and SUD needs. CoBHRM consolidates five of them — the Colorado Client Assessment Record (CCAR), DACODS, ACT, FEP, and the Special Connections pregnancy and postpartum screening — into a single client-centric framework. The point of the consolidation is to eliminate the duplicative data elements that made the old model such a burden. See the BHA technology and data systems page.
CoBHRM is submitted through the Treatment Management System (TMS), and the new CoBHRM interface in TMS covers both mental health and SUD data. If you are contracted with a BHASO, you get your submission specifications from that BHASO. Because the model is brand new and actively being implemented, the specifications are exactly the kind of thing to confirm directly rather than assume — treat the first reporting cycles as a period to validate that your data maps cleanly to the new interface.
The shift from five data sets to one client-centric record is not just administrative tidiness. When a client has co-occurring mental health and SUD needs, the old model made you report the overlapping pieces more than once. A client-centric model captures the person once. Operationally, that rewards a clinical record that is itself unified across mental health and SUD, rather than one that keeps those tracks in separate silos you then have to reconcile for reporting.
Navix is the operating record designed to structure documentation to support CoBHRM reporting through TMS, so the state reporting is a byproduct of clinical work rather than a separate data-entry job — and CollaborateMD, our RCM partner, processes the claims across your RAE and other payers. Because CoBHRM is client-centric across mental health and SUD, keeping one unified record reduces the duplicate entry the old model created. Confirm current CoBHRM specifications with your BHASO.
See how one record can feed CoBHRM cleanly — schedule a demo, or read about contracting with a BHASO.
