Improving the quality and cost-effectiveness of publicly financed health care
Behavioral Health
| Title and Description | Date | Type |
|---|---|---|
Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health Care in Medicaid: An Online ToolkitThis online toolkit, a product of CHCS' work with states to test innovative approaches for integrating care for beneficiaries with physical and behavioral health comorbidities, compiles resources from the Rethinking Care Program as well as other innovative programs and leading thinkers across the country. It includes policy-related materials, hands-on tools, and templates, as well as resources from states to help guide state efforts in implementing integrated approaches. |
Toolkits | |
The Collaborative Care Model: An Approach for Integrating Physical and Mental Health Care in Medicaid Health HomesThis brief highlights the collaborative care model as a potential option for implementing integrated care under the Medicaid health homes authority described in Section 2703 of the Affordable Care Act. |
May 2013 | Technical Assistance Briefs & Tools |
New York's Chronic Illness Demonstration Project: Lessons for Health HomesThis profile from the Center for Health Care Strategies details experiences of the CIDP initiative, which included six regional pilots focused on improving care for Medicaid beneficiaries with chronic physical and behavioral health needs. |
December 2012 | Project Spotlights |
Advancing Medicaid Care Management and Health Home Design: Lessons from Washington StateThis 90-minute webinar will summarize the King County Care Partners (KCCP) approach, highlight key evaluation findings, and address policy and operational lessons to inform other state care management efforts. |
November 2012 | CHCS Webinars |
Improving Medicaid High-Risk Care Management Overview: King County Care PartnersThis profile tells the story of Darlene, one of the many Medicaid beneficiaries in Washington State who benefited from improved care coordination and integrated services through the King County Care Partners project. |
November 2012 | Case Studies |
Randomized Controlled Trial of King County Care Partners' Rethinking Care Intervention: Health and Social Outcomes up to Two Years Post-RandomizationFindings from the two-year pilot suggest that those who participated in the intervention were likelier to have increased access to care, lower inpatient medical costs, relatively fewer unplanned inpatient admissions, and fewer deaths. |
November 2012 | Reports |
Integrating Medicaid Physical and Behavioral Health Services: Lessons from Pennsylvania's Serious Mental Illness Innovations ProjectThis 90-minute webinar described the innovative care management and integration approach behind Pennsylvania's SMI Innovations regional pilots, highlighted key findings from the program evaluation, and addressed policy and operational lessons to help inform other state care management efforts. |
October 2012 | CHCS Webinars |
Improving Medicaid Care Management for People with Serious Mental Illness in PennsylvaniaThis profile tells the story of Shervene, one of the many Medicaid beneficiaries who benefited from improved care coordination and integrated services through Pennsylvania's Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations Project. It provides a first-hand perspective of the pilot effort which was designed to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness and co-occurring physical health conditions. |
October 2012 | Project Spotlights |
Medicaid Pilot Program Demonstrates Decrease in Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations for Patients with Serious Mental IllnessPilot findings inform state efforts to integrate physical and behavioral health services with the goal of improving care and controlling costs for a high-need Medicaid population. |
October 2012 | Press Releases |
Advancing Medicaid Care Management and Health Home Design: Lessons from Washington StateThis 90-minute webinar summarized the King County Care Partners (KCCP) approach, highlighted key evaluation findings, and addressed policy and operational lessons to inform other state care management efforts. |
October 2012 | Webinar Resources |
Improving Medicaid Care Management for People with Serious Mental Illness in PennsylvaniaThis profile tells the story of Shervene, one of the many Medicaid beneficiaries who benefited from improved care coordination and integrated services through Pennsylvania's Serious Mental Illness (SMI) Innovations Project. It provides a first-hand perspective of the pilot effort which was designed to integrate physical and behavioral health care services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness and co-occurring physical health conditions. |
October 2012 | Case Studies |
SMI Innovations Project in Pennsylvania: Final Evaluation ReportAs states across the nation explore ways to curb costs and improve quality for Medicaid's highest-need, highest-cost populations, the Pennsylvania pilot findings offer tangible strategies for doing so. |
October 2012 | Reports |
Integrating Medicaid Physical and Behavioral Health Services: Lessons from PennsylvaniaThis 90-minute webinar described the innovative care management and integration approach behind Pennsylvania's SMI Innovations regional pilots, highlighted key findings from the program evaluation, and addressed policy and operational lessons to help inform other state care management efforts. |
September 2012 | Webinar Resources |
Early Lessons from Pennsylvania's SMI Innovations Project for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health in MedicaidThis brief describes two Pennsylvania regional pilot programs to integrate physical and behavioral health services for adult Medicaid beneficiaries with serious mental illness (SMI) and co-occurring physical health conditions. |
May 2012 | Policy & Issue Briefs |
Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: An Exploration of State OptionsThis 90-minute webinar from the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) explored promising options for integrating physical and behavioral health services within managed delivery systems. Participants heard about new strategies for designing integrated care models and learned how three states - Vermont, Tennessee, and Arizona - are approaching integration from different vantage points. |
November 2011 | CHCS Webinars |
Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health: An Exploration of State OptionsThis 90-minute webinar from the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) explored promising options for integrating physical and behavioral health services within managed delivery systems. Participants heard about new strategies for designing integrated care models and learned how three states - Vermont, Tennessee, and Arizona - are approaching integration from different vantage points. |
November 2011 | Webinar Resources |
State Financing Innovations to Integrate Physical and Behavioral HealthPresentation on innovative state physical/behavioral health integration models by Tricia McGinnis at the NASHP Fall 2011 meeting. |
October 2011 | Staff Presentations |
State Options for Integrating Physical and Behavioral Health CareThis policy brief from the Integrated Care Resource Center explores promising state options for integrating physical and behavioral health services within managed delivery systems, including examples of current state programs and critical considerations for implementation. |
October 2011 | Policy & Issue Briefs |
Faces of Medicaid: Clarifying Multimorbidity Patterns to Improve Targeting and Delivery of Clinical Services for Medicaid PopulationsCHCS commissioned this Faces of Medicaid analysis by Johns Hopkins University researchers to examine multimorbidity patterns among adult Medicaid beneficiaries with disabilities and explore the implications of specific patterns on hospitalization and cost. The analysis uncovers significant opportunities for prioritizing clinical interventions, including the need to integrate physical and behavioral health services. |
December 2010 | Policy & Issue Briefs |
Establishing Accountable Physical/Behavioral Health Care Homes: Medicaid InnovationsThis CHCS webinar outlined Pennsylvania's innovative two-prong pilot program to test integrated care delivery models for beneficiaries with physical and behavioral health comorbidities. |
October 2009 | Webinar Resources |