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Trends In Behavioral Health: A Reference Guide On The U.S. Behavioral Health Financing & Delivery System

What a difference a decade makes! Over the past ten years, more Americans have their health benefits provided through health plans – including more consumers with multiple chronic conditions and complex support needs. How are health plan strategies evolving to address this shift? Designed especially for health payers, this exciting new report brings information about the health plan strategies – as well as the evolving quality, access, and national and state policy landscape – all in one downloadable resource! 

Whether you are a health care payer, consultant, executive, or a policy maker, this report can provide you with insight about the recent changes in national policy, state-by-state landscape analysis, key metrics on behavioral health service delivery capacity and quality metrics. The report explains how health plans are using population health management to address the complex needs of behavioral health consumers in today’s dynamic market place.

Discover the factors shaping the $250 billion behavioral health field in this exciting new report. Brought to the field by Otsuka, and based on the national research of the team at OPEN MINDS, the report includes:

• An overview of the key policy drivers shaping care for consumers with the most complex needs in the U.S. health care system
• A guide to behavioral health financing and delivery at the state level – with a review of key characteristics in each state
• The results of a national survey of U.S. health plans – Medicaid, Commercial, and Medicare – on their strategies for managing the care of consumer with complex needs and their evolving behavioral health management strategies
• A look at the current metrics on system quality and consumer access

For any health and human service executive interested in the evolving role of behavioral health as it becomes increasingly integrated with physical health – and in the management of consumers with complex needs – this reference guide is the essential tool.