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Bridging the Gap on Behavioral Health: Advancing Whole-Person Care Through Integration

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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 conducted a state-wide landscape assessment project to identify, synthesize and communicate successful practices to ensure sustainable payment for behavioral health integration into primary care. The issue brief, "Sustainble Behavioral Health Integration Financing: Successful Practices and Opportunities," was published in October 2024. In 2025, Indsutry Initiatives is continuing it's partnership California Quality Collaborative to convene health plans to implement recommendations from the issue brief.

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Advancing Behavioral Health Integration: Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Change

Advancing Behavioral Health Integration: Collaborative Strategies for Sustainable Change

August 21, 2025

Nearly one in five U.S. adults live with a diagnosed behavioral health condition , but patients often struggle to access the care they need. Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) has emerged as a powerful, evidence-based method to deliver high-quality behavioral health care in primary care and other medical settings...

Issue Brief: Sustainable Behavioral Health Integration Financing

Issue Brief: Sustainable Behavioral Health Integration Financing

October 28, 2024

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...

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...