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Integrating behavioral health into primary care is essential for delivering patient-centered, high-quality and whole-person care. However, fragmented systems and financing create challenges for provider organizations working to integrate behavioral health into their practice. Industry Initiatives’ Behavioral Health program is focused on driving stakeholder alignment to create sustainable financing that enables the scaling of behavioral health services into primary care.

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Collaborative Care: An Integrated Care Model That Works

Collaborative Care: An Integrated Care Model That Works

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California Quality Collaborative

California Quality Collaborative

Industry Initiatives is partnering with California Quality Collaborative, part of the Purchaser Business Group on Health, to advance stakeholder alignment on financing to support behavioral health integration. In 2024, California Quality Collaborative will conduct a state-wide landscape assessment project to identify, synthesize and communicate successful practices to ensure sustainable payment for behavioral health integration into primary care. California Quality Collaborative will synthesize and publish recommendations for successful practices for provider organizations and health plans to implement in Q4 of 2024.

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Mental health crisis calls for a conversation on health care delivery

Mental health crisis calls for a conversation on health care delivery

February 22, 2022

After 24 months of living through a pandemic, the link between our mental and physical health is clearer than ever. What began as a virus of the respiratory system soon caused overwhelming disruption in the structures that ground us – our work, education, social and family connections...