California built a new funding model for school mental health. Most districts aren't using it yet.
As ESSER funds wind down, CYBHI opens a reimbursement pathway for behavioral health services schools are already delivering. BridgeWell helps you capture it without adding work for your team.
This isn't a grant.It's a billing pathway.
CYBHI established a statewide fee schedule for school-based behavioral health services in California, including universal mental health screening. Medi-Cal and major commercial plans are both part of it. Families pay nothing. The reimbursement goes to your district.
For schools that relied on ESSER and other one-time funding, CYBHI reimbursement is what a more durable model looks like. It's still early, but the districts moving now are the ones building that into their operations while the infrastructure is being stood up.
Most schools qualify. Few are collecting.
The barrier usually isn't eligibility. It's that CYBHI claims need a clinical record attached: documentation of what was screened, for whom, and when. Schools running screenings through informal check-ins, paper forms, or general SEL surveys don't generate that. The work is happening. It just isn't being captured in a way that supports a claim.
That's the gap we help close.
- What was screened Validated instrument · timestamped
- For whom Student record · eligibility verified
- When Date of service · clinician of record
- Generated by SEL surveys · paper forms · check-ins Not claimable
Your staff keeps doing what they do. We handle the records.
Care Check sits alongside your existing billing or EMR setup. It doesn't replace anything. When a student completes a screening, it generates the clinical documentation that a CYBHI claim requires — automatically, without your counselors doing anything differently.
97% of students complete it. That's a high completion rate by any measure, and it means more of your screenings turn into reimbursable records.
BridgeWell is HIPAA-compliant and SOC 2 certified. If you're already partway through your CYBHI setup, we fit into what you've built.
See what your district could be collecting.
Run the revenue calculator with your student numbers and get an estimate. Or talk to someone on our team — we can tell you where your district stands and what the path to billing looks like from there.