Using a New Payment Model to Integrate Primary Care into Specialty Behavioral Health Settings

Commonwealth Fund March 15, 2024
Nathaniel Counts, Rachel Nuzum

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The CMS Innovation Center’s Integrated Behavioral Health model seeks to build the capacity of behavioral health specialty care practices to deliver needed physical health care to their clients

Alternative payment models and enhanced infrastructure investments can help to ensure specialty behavioral health care providers can integrate physical health care services and improve their patients’ overall health and well-being

Behavioral health integration is an evidence-based approach to treating common behavioral health conditions — like anxiety and depression — and most often is associated with care that is integrated into the primary care setting. The integration of behavioral health and primary care has been shown to alleviate the pressures of a limited behavioral health workforce and lead to better outcomes.

However,...

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