Email UpdatesHow to Bill for Brief Substance and Alcohol Abuse Services
Describes how clinicians can bill for screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), including an explanation of what SBIRT services are and billing codes
Payment & Reimbursement
Related to financial sustainability, financing policy, and reimbursement for MAT services.
How Practices Can Advance the Implementation of Integrated Care in the COVID-19 Era
This issue brief presents a literature review of primary care practices implementing integrated behavioral health care which identified the main barriers to successful integration as financing, health information technology, and workforce challenges.
Getting Paid for MAT: Sustainable Reimbursement Series
This webinar series includes resources and trainings related to administering and reimbursement for medications for addiction treatment, including reimbursement for telehealth for substance use disorders.
Ensuring Access to Behavioral Health Care: Making Integrated Care a Reality
This is invited testimony to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee during the hearing on "Behavioral Health Care When Americans Need It: Ensuring Parity and Care Integration" about making behavioral health services accessible to Americans, including care for substance use disorders.
Costs and Implementation Effectiveness of Generalist Versus Specialist Models for Adolescent Screening and Brief Intervention in Primary Care
Study analyzing the marginal service and program costs of two models of implementation of adolescent screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment finding the generalist setting to be more cost-effective than specialist care
Cost Benefits of Investing Early In Substance Abuse Treatment
This fact sheet discusses the benefits of early screening, brief intervention, and referrral to treatment, including saving lives and reducing health care costs.
Coding for Screening and Brief Intervention Reimbursement
This web page outlines guidance from SAMHSA related to reimbursement for screening and brief intervention through insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Changes in Medicaid Telehealth Policies Due to COVID-19
This document characterizes Medicaid telehealth policies in each State both before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and afterwards, including details about eligible providers who can deliver services and payment policies.
Best Practice Guide: Telehealth for Direct-to-Consumer Care
This web page guides providers on direct-to-consumer telehealth, including ways to integrate telehealth into their workflow to meet the needs of their patients and practice, developing a direct-to-consumer strategy, and billing for telehealth.
Behavioral Health Integration Into Primary Care: Expand Patient Access to Behavioral and Mental Health Services and Improve Patient Care
This module provides steps and actions to integrate behavioral care into primary care, including ways to implement in practices. It offers continuing medical education credit.