Behavioral Health Business May 10, 2022
Laura Lovett

The behavioral health sector “is ripe with opportunities to improve” as the Biden administration continues to prioritize mental health and addictions treatment.

That’s according to Tequila Terry, group director of state innovation and prevention and population health at the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). This improvement could mean behavioral health is integrated even further into future CMMI models.

“We are thinking about both the opportunity to focus specifically on behavioral health models as a potential design, … and focusing on the opportunity to incorporate behavioral health in our models that are not particularly behavioral health-focused but have people who could benefit from incorporating those elements,” Terry said during a fireside chat at the Behavioral Health Business VALUE event.

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