Healthcare DIVE January 28, 2019
Les Masterson

Dive Brief:

  • A 48-page report from the Bipartisan Policy Center highlights how payer, workforce and administrative barriers create silos between mental and medical health and offers potential solutions. The group offered suggestions for improving three areas with barriers: insurance coverage and payments, workforce and administrative problems.

  • Among ideas to spur change: integration of financing, increased federal spending and improved care coordination to reduce duplication. The report also suggested a task force of stakeholders to “consider options and find consensus on recommendations.”

  • The paper examined how to improve integration of services after consulting with patient advocates, clinical and behavioral healthcare providers, officials, payers, academics and other experts.

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Topics: CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Insurance, Market Research, Mental Health, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Trends
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