Background: Individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) often have significant medical and
behavioral health needs that are unaddressed. Opioid treatment programs (OTP) are …

Persons with serious mental illness (SMI) comprise a high-risk group for cardiovascular
disease (CVD)-related mortality with rates at least twice those of the overall US. Potentially …

The purpose of this study was to examine patient and provider experiences of integrated
behavioral health care at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Using a mixed …

Abstract Objective The Maryland Medicaid health home program, established through the
Affordable Care Act's Medicaid health home waiver, integrates primary care services into …

Integrated health care includes joint, outpatient delivery of medical and behavioral health
services. Traditional patient satisfaction measures might fail to capture the discrete delivery …

Behavioral health homes, shown to improve receipt of evidence-based medical services
among people with serious mental illness in randomized clinical trials, have had limited …

Objective: This study examined whether implementing a whole health care model in a
community mental health center reduced the use of acute care services and total Medicare …

Objective: This study evaluated the impact of two behavioral health home (BHH)
approaches, provider-supported care and self-directed care, on health care utilization and …

Integrating primary care with behavioral health services at community mental health centers
is one response to the disparity in mortality and morbidity experienced by adults with serious …

Objective: Policies supporting value-based care and alternative payment models, notably in
the Affordable Care Act and the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, offer …