Does it pay to be a health home?
Primary and behavioral providers are tracking improved outcomes in more than 1 million Medicaid patients who use health homes.
View ArticleIn Missouri, two nonprofits merge
Alternative Opportunities and Preferred Family Healthcare together will cover a five state area with comprehensive primary care, supported living, employment services and behavioral and addiction...
View ArticleWhat college students want in recovery
Speaker Robert Ashford identified the best and least beneficial programs to college students in recovery at the National Conference on Addiction Disorders.
View ArticleBehavioral health's future includes integration challenges
Individual organizations are seeking to build integration capabilities and streamline operations across their enterprises in the next three to five years.
View ArticleThe future includes integration strategies
As comprehensive care models gain traction in the larger healthcare landscape, you’ll notice the integration of behavioral health and primary care, complemented by more strategic thinking.
View ArticleWhat Works: Partnerships serve rural populations
Centene's grant program has identified innovative solutions in which rural stakeholders have been able to collaborate and pool their resources for greater reach.
View ArticleHigh-touch centers offer embedded behavioral specialists
The country’s largest health insurer just launched 10 brick-and-mortar primary care centers with a high-touch model that includes onsite, licensed, behavioral health specialists.
View ArticleNatCon16: A decade makes a difference
Speaking at NatCon 2016 during the conference kickoff, Linda Rosenberg, president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health, pointed out some telling comparisons between the perspectives of...
View ArticleNatCon16: Payers and providers can work together
While many providers are taking increasingly combative positions when interacting with commercial payers, experts speaking at NatCon 2016 believe a mutually beneficial relationship is possible.
View ArticleHow to leverage population health strategies
Though challenges arise, it is essential that behavioral health providers create population health strategies to increase patient engagement and eventually cut healthcare costs.
View ArticlePatient-centered solutions increase access to behavioral healthcare
The main question in an evolving patient-centered world is whether our services and processes have been designed with the convenience of the provider or the patient in mind.
View ArticleWhat Works: Centerstone improves outcomes through health home model
Integrating behavioral health and primary care has helped Centerstone coordinate services and provide better outcomes for patients.
View ArticleFixing the psychiatrist shortage requires multifaceted solution
It’s ironic that as demand grows for psychiatry services, the supply of providers is at a critical low, according to a new report from the National Council for Behavioral Health. Solutions include...
View ArticleAgenda calls for action to fix mental health system
According to a report to Congress from the Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee, today’s fragmented system must revolutionize and begin to offer coordinated, whole-person care.
View ArticleLinda’s List 2018
Ideally, 2018 should be the year of investment, according to Linda Rosenberg, president and CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health. Here are a few items now trending on Linda’s List.
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