Email UpdatesEarly and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT)
Provides information on the EPSDT benefit for children under age 21 enrolled in Medicaid, including guidelines and strategy guides for State programs
Payment & Reimbursement
Related to financial sustainability, financing policy, and reimbursement for MAT services.
Designing, Implementing and Sustaining Physical Health-Behavioral Health Integration: The Comprehensive Healthcare Integration Framework
This framework guides the implementation of integration of physical and behavioral health (including mental health and substance use) for all child and adult populations. The framework can be used by any provider in a broad range of settings and organizations.
Combating a Crisis by Integrating Mental Health Services and Primary Care
Describes the needed paradigm shift towards behavioral health integration with primary care and discusses key policy and financing challenges to behavioral health integration
Coding for Behavioral Health Integration Services
Provides information about coding for payment and reimbursement of behavioral health integration (BHI) services, including general BHI and collaborative care management
CMS Behavioral Health Strategy
Summarizes the goals, objectives, and supporting activities of the CMS Behavioral Health Strategy, which aims to support a person's whole emotional and mental well-being through covering multiple elements, including access to prevention and treatment services for substance use disorders, mental health services, crisis intervention, and pain care
Behavioral Health Integration Services
This publication offers guidance on updated descriptions from CMS of most commonly used reimbursement codes for behavioral health integration services, including those related to substance use disorder.
Behavioral Health and Primary Care Integration in Rural Health Facilities: Policy Brief and Recommendations to the Secretary
Offers policy recommendations for increasing behavioral health and primary care integration in rural areas. Recommendations include access, workforce recruitment and retention, telehealth and technology, and reimbursement
The Economic Burden of Mental Health Inequities in the United States Report
This study attempts to answer two core questions: how many lives and how many dollars could be saved if the mental and behavioral health care system became more equitable?
Tackling America’s Mental Health and Addiction Crisis Through Primary Care Integration: Task Force Recommendations
Through developing core integrated care standards and, by ensuring the appropriate financing, tools, and training, these recommendations support and incentivize providers to deliver integrated care, which ultimately benefits Americans struggling with mental illness and substance use.
Integrating SUD and OB/GYN Care: Policy Challenges and Opportunities Final Report
This report aims to address the treatment opportunities for pregnant and postpartum (or parenting) women (PPW) with substance use disorder (SUD) by describing opportunities to integrate obstetricians and gynecologists (OB/GYN) and SUD care as well as barriers to integrated care delivery.