Email UpdatesFinancing the Future of Integrated Care
This decision support tool and accompanying integrated care billing modules, including those related to substance use, offer guidance to provider organizations on how to finance integrated care.
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Fact Sheet: President Biden to Announce Strategy to Address Our National Mental Health Crisis, As Part of Unity Agenda in His First State of the Union
Statement from the White House that describes the President's strategy to address the national mental health crisis by strengthening the healthcare system, connecting more people to mental health care, and transforming health and social services infrastructure to address mental health equitably
Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) Resource Center
Describes Electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) activities, which provide common standards and shared technologies to monitor and analyze the quality of health care provided to patients and patient outcomes. This resource center offers educational resources, tools, and standards for using eCQI
Early 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
Digital Health Interventions to Enhance Prevention in Primary Care: Scoping Review
Review that identifies and describes the scope and use of current digital health interventions in primary care settings, including apps that can be used for substance use disorders
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.