Behavioral Health Business October 14, 2022
A coalition of seven organizations has launched a new entity dedicated to improving the health of patients through a value-based care model that focuses on behavioral health and related social determinants of health.
Dubbed the Integral Health Network of Southern Arizona LLC (IHNSA), the new organization is a clinically integrated network dedicated to delivering closely coordinated behavioral health, primary care and social services. It launched in mid-September.
IHNSA was conceptualized and organized by the Wilmington, North Carolina-based population health management company Blaze Advisors and Phoenix-based Banner University Health Plans.
“Payers and communities are starting to recognize that behavioral health went unnoticed,” Jill Lineberger, senior vice president of network development for Blaze Advisors, told Behavioral Health Business. “We have a lot...