Email UpdatesA new web page was created for the Center for Financing Reform & Innovation (CFRI), a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) contract that seeks to understand financing mechanisms of behavioral healthcare to identify opportunities, innovations, and challenges to service delivery and access. CFRI provides SAMHSA with a dynamic mechanism to further its leadership and the field on immediate and relevant behavioral health financing and delivery issues.
CFRI provides information and analysis to address changes in the organization and financing of behavioral healthcare as well as guidance on the most effective and efficient use of available resources to meet the prevention, treatment, and recovery support needs of the American public. This new web page includes new and upcoming reports and webinars for financing, payment, and innovation, and a list of several additional resources on those topics.
Policy and financing are significant elements of integrated behavioral health. Fragmentation in healthcare, and particularly the separation of medical from behavioral health services, has led to clinical, operational, and financial inefficiency. In addition to the new CFRI web page, the Integration Academy has available resources on this topic. These include payment and reimbursement resources in both the Substance Use and Unhealthy Alcohol Use Tools & Resources Collections, references on healthcare policy in the Academy Literature Collection, and the Professional Practices Guidebook on integrated care. The National Council guide on financing the future of integrated care is another resource.