Payment & Reimbursement

This report was developed to provide a state-by-state analysis of Medicaid reimbursement specifically for peer support services, including peer recovery support services for substance use disorders and mental health peer support services.

This issue brief provides information for State Mental Health Authorities (SMHA) about strategies for promoting person-centered planning (PCP) to enhance the quality of behavioral health services and the valued recovery outcomes of those that use them.

This model standards guidance document, SAMHSA's National Model Standards for Peer Support Certification, is prepared in response to President Biden's 2022 Unity Agenda. This document outlines model standards for substance use disorder, mental health, and family/youth peer support certification.

This actionable roadmap shares a Collective Impact approach to elevate solutions that require a cross-sector effort to address long-standing challenges and complex multisystem solutions for expanding and solidifying the behavioral health workforce.

This manual provides guidelines for administrators on addressing issues in outpatient treatment for alcohol and substance misuse. It discusses cultural competence, management and strategic collaborations, human resources, financing, and performance and outcomes improvement.

This NIDA web page includes facts and figures on addressing substance use disorders in the prison population.

Examples on this page illustrate how several different states have taken a comprehensive approach through overall system transformation and/or strategic disruptive investments.

This page and graphic provides a high-level framework for a modernized behavioral health system. The conceptual frame synthesizes key components of a behavioral health continuum of care and cross-cutting principles from expert input and best practice approaches.

This resource presents state examples and key considerations for state officials via an organizing framework broken down by major components of the delivery system and reflecting essential principles for a modern system.

This brochure gives an overview of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008. It lists some of the common limits placed on mental health and substance use disorder benefits and services.