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2021 Trends In Behavioral Health: A Reference Guide On The US Behavioral Health Financing & Delivery System, 3rd Edition

The Third Edition of Trends in Behavioral Health: A Reference Guide On The US Behavioral Health Financing & Delivery System (The Guide) provides information and insights into the multi-layered United States behavioral health system. They include in-depth view of current statistics, prevailing issues, and emerging trends in order to inform the discussions, debates, and decision-making of policy-makers, payers, providers, advocates and consumers. The complete Guides address current behavioral health care trends topics, including:

• A look at the national policy that is shaping the U.S. health and human services market
• A view of the state behavioral health delivery systems that were created by a combination of historical practices, federal and state policy, and market factors over recent years
• An examination of the practices of health plans that manage both physical and behavioral health care for the vast majority of the U.S. population
• A deep-dive into behavioral health care access and delivery of care from the consumer perspective