Outside California, Medicaid behavioral health runs on state reporting systems and multi-payer billing. This guide compares Colorado, Minnesota, and Michigan — CoBHRM, DAANES, and CHAMPS — and the one operating principle that works in all three.
If you operate behavioral health outside California, you live in a different world from the county carve-outs of Medi-Cal — but the underlying challenge is the same. Colorado, Minnesota, and Michigan each run heavy state reporting systems and multi-payer billing that were built to administer a benefit, not to run your facility. This guide compares the three and lands on the one principle that works in all of them. For the state-by-state pages, start at the Medicaid hub.
California hands behavioral health to the counties, each with a mandated system like Sage or IRIS. Colorado, Minnesota, and Michigan do not designate a single county EHR. Instead, they run state reporting systems and multi-payer billing rules, and they let providers choose their own EHR — as long as that EHR produces compliant state reporting and clean claims across the payers. That is the defining feature of what we call the state-reporting lane: your system is your choice, but the reporting is not.
Colorado reports behavioral health through CoBHRM, the unified model that launched July 1, 2026 and consolidated five legacy data sets, submitted through TMS. Payment runs on two tracks: Medicaid through your RAE, and non-Medicaid safety net through your BHASO. The operator's job is to feed one reporting model and bill two tracks cleanly. Read the Colorado guide.
Minnesota ties reimbursement to DAANES — no DAANES entry, no payment — and just realigned SUD services to ASAM standards for 2026, with new billing codes and a level-of-care revenue code on outpatient claims. Claims run through MN-ITS across Medical Assistance, the Behavioral Health Fund, and MinnesotaCare. Read the Minnesota guide.
Michigan runs specialty behavioral health through 10 regional PIHPs and mild-to-moderate care through Medicaid Health Plans, with claims through CHAMPS and standardized LOCUS and MichiCANS assessments under the Mental Health Framework. The dual-track routing is the defining complexity. Read the Michigan guide.
Look across the three states and the pattern is identical: the burden comes from doing the same work twice — once in a clinical record, once in a state system — and the payoff comes from a record built so that reporting and billing are byproducts of clinical documentation. CoBHRM, DAANES, and CHAMPS look different on the surface, but the operating answer is the same: one clinical source of truth that produces the state reporting and the claim without a second pass.
Navix is the operating record designed to structure documentation to support each state's reporting — CoBHRM, DAANES, LOCUS and MichiCANS — and CollaborateMD, our RCM partner, processes the claims across each state's payers. We do not replace the state system; we make satisfying it a byproduct of the clinical work your team already does. Because every one of these environments is actively changing, each of our state guides carries a "last verified" date and cites the state's own sources.
See how one operating record works across states — schedule a demo, or start with your state: Colorado, Minnesota, or Michigan.
