Integrating behavioral health into primary care ensures that providers deliver timely, patient-centered, comprehensive whole-person care while expanding access to behavioral health services, improving patient outcomes, enhancing care team satisfaction and reducing total cost of care. In this session, we will: • Highlight learnings from a 2025 California payer workgroup collaborating to facilitate behavioral health integration implementation for providers • Map behavioral health integration adoption barriers specific to a carve-out state • Identify opportunities to engage plans around behavioral health integration
California Quality Collaborative - Sustainable Behavioral Health Integration Financing: Successful Practices and Opportunities (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https:/www.calquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CQC_BHI-FIN-Issue-Brief_October-2024.pdf)
CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration (https://www.pbgh.org/initiative/calhive-behavioral-health-integration/)
California Quality Collaborative, “Weaving Together Mental and Physical Health Care Outside the Safety Net” (https://www.chcf.org/publication/weaving-together-mental-physical-health-care-outside-safety-net/)
Translational Behavioral Medicine, “Payment strategies for behavioral health integration in hospital-affiliated and non-hospital-affiliated primary care practices” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35880768/)