What Has Been The Cost – & The Results – Of SAMHSA’s Primary Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) Program?

A couple of weeks ago, my colleague Sarah Threnhauser talked about the different types of integration models – integrated service delivery system and integrated care coordination (see All Integration Is Not The Same). Today, I want to focus on integrated service delivery systems – the model for delivering clinical care and treatment to consumers – not the management of care. And specifically, how the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is helping community behavioral health providers implement integrated service delivery through its Primary Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grant program.

Created in 2009, the PBHCI program awards grant funds to behavioral . . .