Payment & Reimbursement

This technical assistance brief will review many aspects of crisis system collaboration, incorporating stakeholder input gathered during this exciting transition from a default emergency medical and law enforcement response to a more intentional, varied continuum of behavioral health crisis responses.

This paper discusses employee- and organization-level strategies to combat barriers to employee recruitment, retention, and wellness among the crisis response and general behavioral health workforce.

This paper presents best practices that will help to circumvent current challenges facing peer support workers and allow them to integrate within the crisis continuum.

The document reviews billing codes for integrated behavioral health care, including substance use services.

The article reviews misinformation surrounding the opioid crisis and presents five facts that help to debunk these myths.

This tool highlights another valuable method for health departments to ensure the inclusion of People With Lived or Living Experience (PWLLE): establishing grantmaking programs and developing meaningful partnerships with community-based organizations (CBOs) that are led for and by PWLLE, including harm reduction organizations. The target audience for this tool includes all staff within substance use-related departments.

The findings from this Issue Brief reveal notable gaps in integrated SUD and mental health services, inpatient and residential care capacity, and use of medications for SUD treatment, with substantial variation across states and territories.

This guide reviews evidence related to leveraging community engagement to support the implementation and scale-up of evidence-based programs and policies.

The resource provides a state-by-state review of available opioid settlement grantmaking programs and whether community organizations are eligible to apply. These funding opportunities allow community services to address the overdose crisis.

This guide equips advocates and changemakers with key information about pharmacy services, including an overview of the system’s inequities, and highlights the policy and accountability levers that can advance equity.