Behavioral Health Integration
Quarterly Implementation Update
BHI Healthcare Leadership Summit
Join California’s leading payers, providers, and purchasers at the CQC Behavioral Health Integration Healthcare Leadership Summit to explore cutting-edge strategies, real-world lessons and cross-sector solutions advancing integrated care. This dynamic convening brings together leaders committed to making behavioral health integration the standard in primary care across California on September 16-17 in San Diego.
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Cal-IN Peer Group for California BHI Leaders
Join CQC Tuesday, June 16, from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. PT for a conversation featuring Community Memorial Healthcare and Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, who will reflect on their behavioral health integration journeys, as CQC shares lessons learned from the CalHIVE BHI Learning Collaborative over the last three years. This virtual session is part of CQC and CFHA's virtual quarterly peer networking group for organizations across California who are supporting integrated BH.
Behavioral Health Integration Data Sharing
In partnership with Connecting for Better Health, CQC convened plans and providers to develop a practical, system- and people-centered blueprint focused on capabilities organizations can implement now to strengthen data sharing between providers and health plans and advance the Collaborative Care Model (CoCM). CQC and BluePath Health will highlight CoCM data sharing learnings during the Connecting for Better Health Meeting on July 9 (11 a.m. - 12 p.m. PT, register here)
Upcoming Events
From Coding to Braiding: Strategies for Financing and Sustaining Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings (AHRQ) (Wednesday, June 10, from 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. ET) | Financing remains one of the biggest barriers to integrating behavioral health and primary care, but a new toolkit highlights successful strategies. Join the AHRQ Academy for Integrating Behavioral Health and Primary Care for a webinar on financing and sustaining integrated behavioral health in primary care settings.
Collaborative Family Healthcare Association Integrated Care Conference 2026 (October 8-10, St. Louis, MO) | Join the national event for advancing integrated care, bringing together leaders, practitioners, and innovators from across the field.
Resources
- AHRQ Integration Academy’s Behavioral Health Integration Ecosystem Directory | CQC is now part of this growing national resource listing organizations advancing the field of behavioral health integration, with the goal of helping to connect providers and others with partners available to support their integration.
- Collaborative Care Training Hub (Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, West Health Institute, and Northwestern Medicine) | The hub offers four free interactive courses tailored to behavioral healthcare managers, primary care clinicians, psychiatric consultants, and billing staff.
- Advancing Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care (West Health and NCQA) | As part of a national behavioral health integration initiative, a payer workgroup that includes the Purchaser Business Group on Health is bringing together stakeholders to align on policy, payment, and measurement strategies needed to scale integrated care in primary care settings.
- Scalable Strategies to Expand the Behavioral Health Workforce (Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute) | While the behavioral health workforce shortage is one of the most urgent challenges facing our nation, this report highlights how leading behavioral health organizations across the country are equipping providers without a clinical license to deliver core evidence-based behavioral health interventions under structured supervision.
- The Promise of Integrated Behavioral Health Care — Improving Health Outcomes (NEJM Catalyst) | BHI can improve access, outcomes, and care coordination, but requires coordinated system-level action, including payment reform, workforce development, and cross-sector collaboration, to scale sustainably. This paper outlines recommended immediate, short-term and long-term actions for the health care industry.
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The California Quality Collaborative (CQC) is a quality improvement program of the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH). CQC's Behavioral Health Integration Initiative supports integrating behavioral health into primary care to improve access and outcomes across California. To learn more about this work, visit our website.
