Policymakers and Payers

This framework of care delivery expectations for integrating behavioral health (including unhealthy alcohol use and substance use) in primary care aligns expectations across payers, practices, and patients. The framework is intentionally flexible to account for variation in approach to integrating behavioral health.

This issue brief analyzes telehealth use during the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses how telehealth has improved access to mental health and substance use services.

This toolkit discusses Medicaid payment strategies in Arizona, New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania that are being used to improve the delivery of substance use disorder (SUD) treatment for patients insured through Medicaid.