HealthIT Answers October 9, 2025
Behavioral health and primary care integration is quickly moving from policy aspiration to expectation.
We’ve long known that behavioral health disorders, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and others, can cause poor adherence to care plans and eventually increase utilization. People managing behavioral health conditions alongside similar levels of physical illness often generate nearly three times the healthcare costs of their peers without those conditions, largely because they require more frequent hospitalizations, emergency visits, and other intensive services.
Payers and policymakers are taking note, treating the integration of primary care and behavioral health as a core component of value-based care (VBC). The question for healthcare organizations is no longer whether they should integrate, but how to sustain it.
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