Policymakers and Payers

Discusses a patient-centered approach to primary care and behavioral health services integration as well as lessons learned from a project implemented within one healthcare system

Provides the 2021 specifications and information needed to implement the electronic clinical quality measures for initiation and engagement of alcohol and other drug dependence treatment

Presents how alcohol consumption has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, using results from a web-based survey collected in May 2020

Provides state-level information on laws addressing requirements that health plans provide the same levels of benefits for alcohol-related disorders as they do for medical and surgical conditions

Blog post that provides recommendations for policymakers and insurers to support telehealth use by primary care providers

Report that offers a literature review and summary of 21 key informant interviews with harm reduction staff from across the United States

Provides resources for assessing organizational readiness, building the business case, and workforce development for integrating primary care and behavioral health

Summarizes discussions from a 2020 workshop exploring challenges and opportunities for providing care for people with mental health and substance use disorders in primary care settings

Discusses some of the challenges with billing and coding for SBIRT and lessons learned from Oregon adding SBIRT as a performance metric

Presents challenges and opportunities for improving behavioral health (including alcohol use disorder) in rural communities, with examples of ways to better integrate behavioral health and primary care and examples of policies for addressing behavioral health disorders