Behavioral Health Integration
Quarterly Implementation Update
2024 BHI Initiative Impact Report
We are delighted to share CQC’s 2024 BHI Initiative Impact Report and spotlight some of our most recent activities. Our work is only possible because of the providers, care teams, health plans and partners who contribute their time, insights and leadership. CQC would like to thank all our partners working to advance the integration of behavioral health services into primary care.
BHI Payer Workgroup
This spring, CQC launched a BHI payer workgroup to implement key recommendations outlined in our 2024 issue brief. Plans have co-designed a BHI FAQ for plans and produced a BHI Implementation Guide for providers, which will be released publicly in Q4.
BHI Focused on Children and Youth
CQC’s learning collaborative, BHI-CYCLE, will host a public webinar on September 17, accompanied by a toolkit highlighting successful practices and solutions to support integrated care for children and adolescents.
Resources & Events
CIVITAS Annual Conference (September 28 - 30, Anaheim, CA)
- CQC’s Kristina Mody, Director, Practice Transformation will be presenting on a panel From Data to Impact: Driving Behavioral Health Integration Through Shared Insights and Partnerships
NCQA Health Innovation Summit (October 12 - 15, San Diego, CA)
- CQC's Peter Robertson, Senior Director, Practice Transformation and Jose Ordonez, Data Manager will be presenting on lessons from measuring behavioral health integration.
Collaborative Family Healthcare Association’s Annual Conference (October 16 - 18, Raleigh, NC)
- CQC's Kristina Mody, Director, Practice Transformation and Mary Nickel-Nguy, Senior Manager, Behavioral Health will be presenting on health plan opportunities around behavioral health integration.
- A new national map tool, developed by the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute, on behalf of Path Forward, and in partnership with the American Psychiatric Association, includes Collaborative Care data from a dataset of 219 million Americans
- The California Primary Care Association has a free, on-demand training course for implementing dyadic care services
“Integrated Behavioral Health Works and Saves Money. Why Aren’t We Doing It?”
- This Milbank Memorial Fund blog post highlights a recent study on implementing integrated behavioral health in New Jersey community health centers and offers recommendations for health systems and state policymakers
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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.
