Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care

those materials focused on primary care and behavioral health services integration, such as guidebooks, websites, and journal articles that offer strategies and considerations for primary care and behavioral health stakeholders to support successful services integration implementation.

The Importance of Alcohol Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in Closing the Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Gap

Provides research and support for the use of alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), by providers across the health care spectrum to prevent or reduce alcohol misuse among their patients

The Building Blocks of Behavioral Health Integration

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.

Strengthening Behavioral Healthcare to Meet the Needs of Our Nation

Describes how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing strategies to ensure patients are receiving health care services to meet their behavioral health needs and how CMS is working to meet the goals of President Biden's "Strategy to Address our National Mental Health Crisis"

Social Workers in Integrated Care Beyond Primary Care: A Scoping Review

Review that explores the different roles of social workers as members of integrated care teams; suggests that patient mental health outcomes can be positively impacted by social workers serving as members of these care teams

U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Treasury issue 2022 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act Report to Congress

Provides information on the implementation of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (MHPAEA), highlighting the DOL, HHS, and Treasury's emphasis on greater MHPAEA enforcement

Patient Screening for Integrated Behavioral Health in Adult Primary Care: A Rapid Review of Effective Procedures

Review that explores the evidence base for performing screening for behavioral health conditions in primary care; suggests the need for additional research on the efficacy of behavioral health screening strategies and implementation techniques

Making Progress on Integration of Behavioral Health Care and Other Medical Care

Proposes key strategies and policy opportunities for integrating behavioral health care and other medical care as well as an overview of payment reforms that can incentivize integration

Integrating Primary Care and Behavioral Health to Address the Behavioral Health Crisis

This publication describes approaches for integrating behavioral health (including mental health and substance use) care into primary care and how integrated practices can provide better services to meet mental health, substance use, and other medical needs.

Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care: Better Care and Health for the Whole Person

This issue brief provides best practices from health insurance providers related to integrating behavioral health and primary care to improve health outcomes, including potential policy solutions and opportunities.

Integrating Alcohol-Related Prevention and Treatment Into Primary Care: A Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial

Describes the intervention from the Sustained Patient-Centered Alcohol-Related Care (SPARC) trial and the increases in screening and brief intervention as a result of the trial. It does not include alcohol use disorder treatment engagement in primary care

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