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© Copyright 2016 RAND CorporationR® is a registered trademark.ii Preface Section 223 of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-93) authorized a demonstration program aimed at improving the accessibility and quality of community-based behavioral health care through creation of an innovative clinic model, known as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), in collaboration with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, will conduct an evaluation of the demonstration.ASPE contracted with RAND to provide information on the availability of data sources pertinent to the evaluation of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic demonstration, input on the research questions to be addressed in the evaluation, and suggested study designs to address the research questions. This evaluation design report includes those findings, suggested research questions and study designs, and cost and burden estimates for various evaluation options.This work was sponsored by ASPE under contract HHSP23320095649WC, for which Christie Peters serves as project officer. The research was conducted in RAND Health, a division of the RAND Corporation. A profile of RAND Health, abstracts of its publications, and ordering information can be found at www.rand.org/health. Law 113-93), the CCBHC is a new model of specialty behavioral health clinic, designed to provide comprehensive and integrated care for adults with mental health or substance use disorders and children with serious emotional distress. Certification criteria for the CCBHCs have been specified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration covering six core areas: sta...