This review is an initial exploration of team development within effective integrated primary and behavioral healthcare teams. Six integrated teams in safety net primary care settings were interviewed on the development of the clinical team.
During this recorded learning session, Sandra Wilkniss (Senior Program Director of Population and Public Health at NASHP) presents NASHP's research and learning from convening state Medicaid, public health, behavioral health, and CHW leaders as states strive to build sustainable financing approaches for the CHWs and peers.
This learning session explored how primary care and behavioral health providers and/or networks of providers can make the case for a payor (e.g., a Medicaid plan or a Medicaid agency) to support closer collaboration and integration of primary care and behavioral health services and payments (e.g., data sharing infrastructure investments, care management and coordination payments, performance payments, shared savings, etc.).
Andy Principe of Starling Advisors presented on a 10-year look back at lessons learned from safety-net provider networks. Participants reviewed a brief history of Network activity, takeaways, and priorities for future work.
This brief summarizes key challenges faced by the rural ambulatory safety net in delivering primary care and behavioral health services since COVID-19 and the policy changes that have been implemented in response to those challenges. It also offers state-level policy recommendations to improve rural-specific primary care and behavioral health care through sustaining and supporting the movement towards telehealth, addressing social needs, and advancing value-based payment and care.